COVID-19 Vaccines Should Be Available to the General Public by April 2021, Health Officials Say
COVID-19 vaccines are projected to be available to the entire American public by April 2021, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said at…
Read moreLocal Doctors Are Now the Frontline for COVID-19 Response
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve as the virus mutates to more contagious forms. Despite the new wave and continuing federal effort to address COVID-19, the pandemic…
Read moreMonkeypox Vaccine Maker Considers 24-Hour Emergency Production
Bavarian Nordic A/S, the only company with a vaccine approved for monkeypox, said it’s preparing to run production through the night to meet surging demand after the…
Read morePandemics Don’t Really End—They Echo
The public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic officially ended on May 11, 2023. It was a purely administrative step. Viruses do not answer to government…
Read moreNASA’s Far-Flung Space Fleet Is Getting a Few Extra Years to Explore the Cosmos
It’s not hard to keep track of NASA’s big-ticket items—the high visibility spacecraft that generally carry equally high price tags and make very big headlines. There’s the…
Read moreTikTok Trend Normalizes Disordered Eating
A viral new TikTok trend using audio of model Bella Hadid’s voice has raised concern online for normalizing disordered eating and making light of eating disorders. The…
Read moreDorian Makes Landfall in N.C.
Post-Tropical Cyclone Dorian continued into eastern Canada on Sunday with winds as high as 75 mph, following its Friday landfall in North Carolina that battered the state’s…
Read moreThis City in Iraq Is Coming Together to Save Its Date Palms
In Karbala, an Iraqi province just south of Baghdad, sun pours down from a cloudless blue sky, cooking the khaki-colored earth in 115°F temperatures. The smallest stirring…
Read moreThe Polio Threat Grows, But a New Vaccine Can Help
The recent return of polio has hit like something of an epidemiological thunderclap. It was in 1979 that polio was officially declared eradicated in the U.S.—an early…
Read moreBlack Friday spend to hit billions, but predictions vary widely
Analysts at GlobalData on Thursday said that “UK shoppers are set to squeeze more of their Christmas spend into the Black Friday period (November 25-December 2) due…
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