The new guidance will speed the development of vaccines that protect against more contagious Coronavirus variants. Vaccine developers will not have to conduct lengthy randomized controlled trials for vaccines adapted to protect against concerning Coronavirus variants, according to the Food and Drug Administration. In a time when scientists are increasingly concerned about how variants could … Read more
Holdout states signed on, and thousands of lawsuits were settled over the company’s and family’s roles in the opioid epidemic. An additional $1 billion was agreed to by the Sacklers. Earlier this week, members of the billionaire Sackler family and Purdue Pharma agreed to a deal with states that had opposed the company’s bankruptcy plan … Read more
As a professor of psychology, Doctor has published nearly 500 articles and essays on teen development. It’s no secret that Facebook has dominated the latest news cycle, but critics have overlooked an inconvenient fact: Instagram, a Facebook app, has not been shown to harm teenage girls’ psychological well-being, whether it’s done by Facebook or anyone … Read more
Rush, who is often called the “father” of American psychiatry, believed Black skin was caused by a mild form of leprosy in the 18th century. His one-time apprentice, Doctor, spread the falsehood throughout the antebellum South that enslaved people whose desire to be free was unyielding were suffering from a mental disorder he called “drapetomania,” … Read more
A series of studies found the Moderna vaccine to be more protective over time than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The reason is as follows. After the Coronavirus vaccines were approved, federal health officials repeated the same refrain: They are all equally effective. As it turns out, that wasn’t true. A total of 221 million doses of … Read more
Another week, another platform in trouble for allowing its talent to spread misinformation. Among other false and dubious health claims presented on his popular, Spotify-hosted podcast, Joe Rogan suggested that the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are a form of “gene therapy” and that young people are more likely to contract the disease from vaccination than from … Read more
With the Eat Well Challenge, you’ll learn how to reshape your eating habits without dieting. Stop dieting and start savoring your food instead as your New Year’s resolution. Despite what may seem like surprising advice, there is mounting evidence that diets don’t work. Food restriction makes you want to eat more, according to research. Long-term, … Read more
The conventional wisdom about metabolism says people gain weight as they age because their metabolisms slow down. The metabolism of women is slower than that of men. That’s why they have a hard time controlling their weight. The menopause only worsens things, slowing women’s metabolisms even further. It’s all wrong, according to a paper published … Read more
In the city’s wastewater, these mysterious sequences, or cryptic lineages, have continued to appear. Humans are not at risk from these lineages, which have circulated for at least a year without overtaking Delta or Omicron. On Thursday, the researchers published their findings in Nature Communications, but they still don’t know where they came from. “We … Read more
Discover what it’s like to be an American man. 198 pounds and 5 feet 9 inches tall, he weighs 198 pounds. A 40-inch waist and a body mass index of 29 place him at the high end of the “overweight” range. What does the average woman look like? Her height is 5 feet 4 inches, … Read more