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Federal government systematically shortchanging Black communities in distributing COVID aid

Casey Ross&nbsp|&nbsp
[A] study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that… funding inequities resulted from a formula that allocated large chunks of a ...

Headspace for work app: Mindfulness science or scam?

Juliet Isselbacher&nbsp|&nbsp
Demand for the mindfulness and meditation app has skyrocketed since the Covid-19 pandemic and its ripple effects began taking a ...

$10 COVID saliva test with results in three hours approved for rollout

Andrew Joseph, Ed Silverman&nbsp|&nbsp
[A] new test, which is called SalivaDirect and was developed by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health, allows ...

How we are developing a coronavirus vaccine so quickly

Andrew Joseph&nbsp|&nbsp
Just six months ago, when the death toll from the coronavirus stood at one and neither it nor the disease it caused had ...

Meet STACI: STAT’s fascinating interactive guide to AI in healthcare

Casey Ross, Dominic Smith&nbsp|&nbsp
The Covid-19 pandemic underscores the importance of the technology in medicine: In the last few months, hospitals have used AI ...

‘A huge amount of wasted effort’: Most COVID-19 studies too small to yield real results

Erin Riglin, Matthew Herper&nbsp|&nbsp
1,200 clinical trials aimed at testing treatment and prevention strategies against Covid-19 [have been designed] since the start of January ...

COVID-19 undercount: CDC now says as many as 24 times more people in the US infected

Andrew Joseph&nbsp|&nbsp
[A] study, published [July 21] in JAMA Internal Medicine [determined that the true number of U.S. coronavirus cases could be ...

Artificial consent: Unproven AI making key decisions about patients health care without their knowledge

Erin Brodwin, Rebecca Robbins&nbsp|&nbsp
At a growing number of prominent hospitals and clinics around the country, clinicians are turning to AI-powered decision support tools ...

Structural discrimination: COVID-19 illuminates healthcare inequalities for blacks

Meghana Keshavan&nbsp|&nbsp
The disparities have long been documented. Black people are more likely than white people to die from cancer. They are ...

Knocking out cholesterol genes could offer ‘one-and-done’ CRISPR cure for heart disease

Sharon Begley&nbsp|&nbsp
When CRISPR “base editing” was used to knock out two cholesterol-associated genes in monkeys, the animals’ blood levels of heart-disease-causing ...

American teens lose access to mental health care at 18 – with disastrous results

Megan Thielking&nbsp|&nbsp
Age 18 is a particularly difficult time for a person to drop out of — or lose access to — ...

Viewpoint: Anti-vax extremists bully public health officials. We can’t let them win

Richard Pan&nbsp|&nbsp
Since mid-April, 27 state and local health leaders across 13 states have resigned, retired, or been fired, some citing threats ...
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‘Serious side effects’: FDA revokes emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment

Lev Facher&nbsp|&nbsp
The Food and Drug Administration on [June 15] said it had withdrawn an emergency approval for use of the malaria ...

COVID-19 vaccines unlikely to be ‘cure-alls’. That might not be such a bad thing

Helen Branswell&nbsp|&nbsp
With a little luck and a lot of science, the world might in the not-too-distant future get vaccines against Covid-19 ...
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Lancet medical journal retracts much-questioned COVID-19 ‘observational study’ that raised safety alarms about hydroxychloroquine

Andrew Joseph&nbsp|&nbsp
The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on [June 4] retracted an influential study that raised alarms about ...
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Viewpoint: At-home test detects cervical cancer early. It should be available to all women

Emma McKim Mitchell&nbsp|&nbsp
I’m a public health nurse who has spent a career studying ways to better test women for the human papillomavirus ...

COVID-19 hit the US as early as January, CDC analysis suggests

Helen Branswell&nbsp|&nbsp
How early did local transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus begin in the United States? For the second time [recently], scientists ...

Adverse reactions in COVID-19 vaccine trial illustrates rocky road to developing therapies for diverse populations

Matthew Herper&nbsp|&nbsp
Patients in clinical trials are usually faceless. But as the experimental Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Moderna Therapeutics has begun ...

Viewpoint: We can’t simply test our way out of the coronavirus pandemic

Michael Hochman&nbsp|&nbsp
In response to calls for Covid-19 testing of the entire U.S. population, several large universities, and even some employers, have ...

Experimental Parkinson’s treatment draws ethics scrutiny with wealthy donor selected as first patient

Sharon Begley&nbsp|&nbsp
A secretive experiment revealed [May 12], in which neurosurgeons transplanted brain cells into a patient with Parkinson’s disease, made medical ...

Pandemic could give a boost to remote-monitoring devices that keep patients out of the doctor’s office

Erin Brodwin&nbsp|&nbsp
It was a shift that began long before the pandemic: Tech companies, health providers, and patients alike were increasingly looking ...

‘This is what it feels like to be normal’: Experimental stem cell treatment shows promise against Parkinson’s

Sharon Begley&nbsp|&nbsp
[Researchers planned] to carry out an experimental transplant surgery unprecedented in the annals of medicine: replacing the dysfunctional brain cells ...
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There will be no vaccine widely available by fall (or anytime soon) even with a miracle breakthrough

Helen Branswell&nbsp|&nbsp
Vaccines to prevent Covid-19 infection are hurtling through development at speeds never before seen. But mounting promises that some vaccine ...

What the porn industry can teach us about how to live safely with coronavirus

Usha McFarling&nbsp|&nbsp
Since the late 1990s, when an outbreak of HIV infections threatened to shutter the multibillion-dollar industry, the mainstream porn community ...

Is this brain-controlled prosthetic arm—with the sensation of touch—the future of prosthetics?

Shafaq Zia&nbsp|&nbsp
[T]hree years ago, [electrician Rickard] Normark received a new kind of brain-controlled prosthetic that was surgically attached to the bone, ...

‘Impenetrable medical jargon’: Why retooling ClinicalTrials.gov should be a priority

Alison Bateman-House, Jamie Webb&nbsp|&nbsp
Millions of people visit ClinicalTrials.gov each year to find a trial that they or a loved one might be eligible ...
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Viewpoint: US failure to ‘study drugs more quickly’ means more people are dying from coronavirus

Matthew Herper&nbsp|&nbsp
When medical historians look back at the Covid-19 pandemic, they will reckon with how the United States, with its vast ...
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Using artificial intelligence to identify promising coronavirus treatments

Casey Ross&nbsp|&nbsp
Treating patients with the never-before-seen Covid-19 is forcing doctors to choose between two equally unpalatable options: try an unproven therapy ...