Stories by Dina Fine Maron

Genetic blueprints attached to a rocket survived a short spaceflight and later passed on their biological instructions

The World Health Organization issues a new report on the neglected public health issue of drowning

Denial, violence and fear make it difficult to stamp out Ebola in west Africa

A 10-second makeout session can also transfer some 80 million oral bacteria. Dina Fine Maron reports

Rep. Rush Holt on science in Congress: “There are some real frustrations. I’ll leave it at that”

Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks with Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders, who has fought Ebola in Guinea and Liberia. And Steve talks Ebola with Stanford's David Relman, chair of the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine
 

A first-of-its-kind study finds it’s possible to analyze snake DNA left in a bite victim’s wound to identify the species—and thus the correct antivenom. Dina Fine Maron reports

 

The lethal virus is killing health care workers and causing ripple effects for pregnant women in west Africa

An Ebola patient produces up to 40 times more waste than other patients. This and other challenges, including too-small airstrips, complicate the fight against the virus

Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks about Ebola with tropical medicine and infectious disease expert Daniel Bausch of Tulane University at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

 

A second form of the painful chikungunya virus has appeared in Brazil—one that could more easily spread, including to the U.S.  

Organizers of tropical medicine meeting to offer refunds, swap out speakers

The number of Ebola cases appear to be dropping in Liberia—but what will it take to stamp out the disease?

As more patients recover from the infection, what risk do they pose to their sexual partners?

Clinical trials rarely include children; as a result, less than half of all drugs are approved for pediatric use. What can be done?

Physically active children are healthier and score better on intellectual tests than their sedentary peers. Dina Fine Maron reports

Critical care at Dallas hospital failed to prevent patient from succumbing to virus acquired in Liberia

Virus sickens a nurse's assistant attending to an Ebola patient in Spain

Howard University Hospital in D.C. is the latest facility to report a suspect patient in isolation, but so far only a Dallas visitor has tested positive for the virus

Mathematical epidemiology projects more than half of the Ebola infectious will have to be isolated to prevent the disease's long growth tail

Health officials scale-up efforts to trace infected traveler’s contacts

In a bid to boost fitness, new park benches in Moscow will let sitters see their weight and receive health tips. Dina Fine Maron reports

 

Dallas hospital is treating traveler from Liberia

What would it take to hijack the virus in west Africa and turn it into a bioterror agent elsewhere?