Vaccines
How Vaccines Saved Money and Lives, and China's Zero-COVID Protests: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 44
Vaccines saved New York City billions of dollars, and China faces public fury over its strict virus-control policies.
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Pharmaceuticals
Heralded Alzheimer’s Drug Works, but Safety Concerns Loom
Eisai and Biogen share clinical trial data confirming that lecanemab slows mental decline amid reports of potentially related deaths
Anatomy
One in 10 Who Menstruate Suffer from Endometriosis. Why Do We Know So Little about It?
Compared with other diseases with similar economic burdens, research on endometriosis is severely underfunded, in large part because we don’t talk about periods.
Neurology
Autism Treatment Shifts Away from ‘Fixing’ the Condition
There are different ways to be happy and function well, even if your brain is not typical
Inequality
The Opioid Epidemic Is Surging among Black People because of Unequal Access to Treatment
Clinics and the most effective types of therapy are harder to find in communities where people of color live
Education
Students with HIV Need Support
I helped develop a plan to support youth living with HIV and would like to see more educational institutions prioritize our needs
Vaccines
Three New Ebola Vaccines Will Soon Be Tested in Uganda
Health care workers in Uganda will be among the first people to receive candidate Ebola vaccines in a clinical trial that could expand the available tools for the control of Sudan ebolavirus outbreaks...
Public Health
What the Triple Threat of COVID, RSV and Flu Means for Children
Two epidemiologists explain how three viral illnesses are straining health care systems
Vaccines
Antivirals Could Reduce Long COVID Risk and How Well the New Boosters Work: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 43
In this new episode of our coronavirus podcast, we discuss a study that looked at the effects of Paxlovid on long COVID symptoms, and we also talk new bivalent boosters and immunity...
Public Health
Why Life Expectancy Keeps Dropping in the U.S. as Other Countries Bounce Back
COVID cut average life spans short in many high-income countries, but the U.S. decline has been steeper and longer than most
