The government doesn’t know how many people have died of COVID-19, in part because it didn’t require nursing homes to report cases to the CDC. In some states, over half of deaths are in nursing homes.
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Southern governors are starting to reopen their economies at the same time COVID-19 cases are spreading through the rural South.
While COVID-19 raises the risk for people with underlying medical conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and COPD, social distancing can make it harder to keep up diets and medication.
Testing everyone for COVID-19 isn’t realistic in a country the size of the US, but there are ways to design testing systems that can catch most of the cases.
As the health care system tries to solve the crisis in care around the coronavirus, pharmacists stand ready to help, but they face limits.
A lot of numbers are being tossed around about COVID-19 and what to expect in the future. They’re being used to make critical public health decisions, but they aren’t as simple as they appear.
Asthma rescue inhalers are in short supply, and asthma sufferers are worried about the risks they face from COVID-19. A doctor answers six key questions.
U.S. health officials flipped their advice and now recommend everyone wear cloth masks in public to reduce the spread of coronavirus to others. Some cities have fines for going without masks.
Grisly early experiments laid the foundation of our understanding of how to keep organs ‘alive’ in isolation.
We found that one of the most widely used tests does not come up to scratch.
Patients taking antipsychotics aren’t being made aware of the risks or side-effects.
Pediatric epigenetic clocks have the potential to accurately assess biological age. However, possible applications in law enforcement and immigration raise ethical issues.
We need to recapture the humanity of the NHS and make doctors feel more than grinding cogs in a brutal machine.
The flu shot is a bargain – and people are more likely to get it if they know that.
Concerned about rising cases and spread of Lassa fever, the Nigerian Academy of Science has called on government to declare it a national health emergency.
Many people are taking glucosamine for their osteoarthritis. But do they really need to stop in light of new safety warnings?
Genome sequencing technologies have transformed biological research in many ways, but have had a much smaller effect on the treatment of common diseases.
Addiction to cocaine is wildly difficult to conquer. But physicians may soon have a new type of gene therapy for patients that makes the drug less alluring.
An estimated £300m worth of medicine goes unused in the UK every year. But is it safe to take drugs past their expiry date?
A sense of wellbeing can have an important affect on parents’ decisions when it comes to health care.
Principais colaboradores
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Professor and Director Academic Excellence, Macquarie University
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Lecturer Pharmacy Practice, University of Sydney
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Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of History, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Chief, Epithelial Therapeutics Unit, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Professor of Law, Villanova University
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
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Doctoral Student in Biochemistry, University of Washington
