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Research has been limited thus far and the situation could be worse.
This century-old vaccine could have a protective effect against COVID-19, these researchers claim.
Even news of world-changing events can't reach some places.
It's hard to say what the full economic effects of the pandemic will be, but past events can teach us valuable lessons.
The coating could make equipment safer and usable for longer.
The letter urges businesses and the public to wear masks so we can stop the virus.
Half a million jobs in this sector have been lost in March and April.
School shutting has moved learning to online almost overnight, but what will happen post-pandemic?
Half of the low-income respondents said they feared they would lose their jobs, compared to less than 20% of higher-income Americans.
Scientists make a dire warning. Again.
Just cut your own damn hair, Karen.
I agree with that view.
A new report from the Lancet finds a decrease in rates of death in COVID-19 cases but warns that even the most advanced medical care systems will be overwhelmed during the pandemic without urgent intervention.
It's the article we were hoping not to write.
You've probably heart it before, but here we go again: wash your hands, often and thoroughly.
The US is certainly not safe from Zika.
Although authorities are still on alert, the Zika epidemic seems to have backed off.
Viruses are mutating and adapting to the human body.
Nature, the Lancet and many other medical publishers and researchers have announced that all Zika-related scientific articles will be published freely in the wake of the recent outbreak. “We announce that Nature journals will make all papers relating to Zika virus free to access until further notice,” a statement reads. “Nature journals will also now encourage […]
More than 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths among children born in the last 20 years have been spared by vaccination preventive action, but despite this more and more parents choose to shun vaccines, not only for them, but for their children as well. The consequences are evident, but it's not the lives of themselves and their children that parents who refuse vaccines risk. It's that of those around them, in their communities as well.
This year the world saw the worst Ebola outbreak on record with more reported cases than in all the past years combined. Much more. The latest update from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports 9,178 patients, of which 4546 have died. The actual number of people infected with Ebola is actually much larger, […]
As reported earlier, 2014 has seen the worst Ebola outbursts in history. Recent escalations of the outbreaks and spread to other countries like Nigeria has finally prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the Ebola situation a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The report is meant to raise more awareness to the deadly threats […]
The world is getting smaller by the day, as fixed geographical distances become easier and more accessible for the common folk to travel. What this means is that a lot of things change as well, including the day diseases are carrier and spread throughout the world. Only a century ago, the number one mean of […]
At the end of last year, controversy sparked among the medical scientific community when an unprecedented event occurred. Two separate and independent studies made by a team of scientists lead by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin and TIME 100 honoree Ron Fouchier of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, respectively, had their papers’ postponed and censored for publishing. The […]
The bubonic plague, known to history as The Black Death or simply The Plague, was responsible for marking one of Europe’s most darkest hours, twice decimating the continent’s population, killing off two thirds. The disease is caused by a Gram-negative bacterium called Yersinia pestis, of zoonotic nature, especially carried by rodents – more exactly rats. […]
The swine influenza is now, officially, the 4th flu pandemic in the last 100 years. Margaret Chan, the director-general of the World Health Organization made an official move and declared the first global influenza pandemic in the last 40 years, for the A(H1N1) virus. However, it’s still unknown if this decision will actually change something […]
