Medicine (Page 11)

Insights into the healthcare system and the latest in pharmaceutical development.

Latest in Medicine

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What really happened during the ‘Kentucky meat shower’?

By Popular Science Team

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The CDC released a COVID-19 test knowing it had a high failure rate

By Rachael Zisk

A collection of items used to ease flu symptoms: a glass of water, hot water bottle, allergy pills, a thermometer and a stethoscope

You can have COVID-19 without symptoms, but what about the flu?

By Rachael Zisk

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Rural America is now the center of the COVID pandemic

By Rachael Zisk

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The current state of the pandemic in five graphs

By Sara Chodosh

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A taskforce of Black doctors is independently evaluating COVID-19 vaccine candidates

By Kate Baggaley

Two women just won the Nobel Prize for their work on the gene-editing technique CRISPR

By Claire Maldarelli

President Donald Trump signing an executive order in the White House in 2017

Why COVID-19 attacks aging immune systems so fiercely

By Brian Geiss/The Conversation

The Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to the trio that discovered hepatitis C

By Sara Kiley Watson

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How do we know if medicines are safe during pregnancies?

By Jyoti Madhusoodanan / Undark

Keeping older folks out of COVID-19 vaccine trials hurts everyone

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Pig sex and celery have a surprising connection

By Popular Science Team

CDC Director Robert Redfield and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci in 2018

The CDC thinks 90 percent of the US could still catch COVID-19

By Purbita Saha

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It’s never been more important to get a flu shot

By Sara Chodosh

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A coronavirus vaccine will save more lives if we share it widely

AstraZeneca resumed its COVID-19 vaccine trials after uncovering a mysterious reaction

By Claire Maldarelli

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The ‘inactive’ ingredients in your pills could harm you

By Yelena Ionova/The Conversation

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Trump downplayed the threat from COVID-19. Here’s how we could’ve fought back harder.

By Kate Baggaley

Civil War medical dispatch

Times of strife can lead to medical innovation—when governments are willing

By Jeffrey Clemens/The Conversation

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AstraZeneca just paused its COVID-19 vaccine trial, and that’s a good thing

By Claire Maldarelli

Causes of Mortality in the Army

Infographics have helped keep us alive for centuries

By Murray Dick/MIT Press Reader

Artificial intelligence creates better, faster MRI scans

a girl getting a bandaid after receiving a vaccine.

What would it actually take to have a COVID-19 vaccine by November?

By Kate Baggaley

Watch Elon Musk unveil the next version of his AI-powered brain implant, Neuralink

By Stan Horaczek

Two parents holding a newborn

People are stockpiling umbilical cord blood without really knowing what it does

By Mikkael A. Sekeres/MIT Press Reader

Russia just approved a COVID vaccine—but that’s not necessarily good news

By Claire Maldarelli

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Gene-edited cows could make meat more sustainable. But would people eat it?

By Dyllan Furness/Undark

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Older adults have a hard time accessing virtual health care

Pap smears are no longer the best way to screen for cervical cancer

By Kate Baggaley

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The verdict on hydroxychloroquine is in

By Sara Chodosh and Claire Maldarelli

Vaccines for flu and pneumonia could reduce your chances of getting Alzheimer’s

By Kate Baggaley

Antibiotics could replace surgery for some kids with appendicitis

Pink face masks.

Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine has started a nationwide, Phase 3 trial

By Claire Maldarelli

Kids may spread COVID-19 more than previously assumed

By Sara Kiley Watson

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Ignored by doctors, trans people turn to dangerous underground treatments

By Tara Santora/Undark

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Inside the race to develop a safe COVID-19 vaccine

By Kate Baggaley

A bag and vials of donated blood

The FDA’s gay and bi blood-donor ban isn’t just stigmatizing—it’s also likely outdated

By Candice Wang

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COVID cases in the US might be ten times higher than reported

By Claire Maldarelli

Traveling midwives fill crucial health care gaps in rural US states

By Sophie Novack/Texas Observer

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Snakebites can be deadly for dogs, but some simple precautions can save them

By Tom Davis/Field & Stream

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A study claiming hydroxychloroquine increased risk of death used dubious data

By Rachel Feltman

A blue morpho butterfly spread out on a plant

We can soon thank butterfly tongues for better cancer treatments and vaccines

By PopSci Editors

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Why only half of Americans say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine

By Sara Chodosh

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The CDC says you probably won’t get COVID-19 from deliveries or pets

By Claire Maldarelli

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Small doctors’ offices are turning to GoFundMe to survive the pandemic

By Brooke Borel/Undark

PrEP can prevent HIV infection in teens—so why aren’t they using it?

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Are doctors trying too many experimental COVID-19 treatments?

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Oxford University’s timeline for a COVID-19 vaccine is shorter than previous estimates

By Kate Baggaley

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This 17th-century plague diary hits a little too close to home

By Ute Lotz-Heumann/The Conversation

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A new vaccine protects mice from another dangerous coronavirus

By Kate Baggaley

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Animal Crossing’s most elusive fish has a bizarre real-life backstory

By Popular Science Team

The huge Navy hospital ships in Los Angeles and New York have a rich history

A syringe in a vaccine bottle

Scientists are experimenting with three kinds of COVID-19 vaccines

By Jean Peccoud/The Conversation

A cubic array of micro-fabricated capsules to deliver multiple vaccines in one shot

Medical breakthroughs turned into gorgeous images

By Popular Science Team

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A popular autism drug for children isn’t as safe as its label indicates

By Hannah Furfaro/Spectrum News

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Modern surgery wouldn’t be possible without this one key drug

By David Schneider

Titanium femurs are real, but so are their risks

Osteoclast cells make way for new bone growth in a mouse femur.

These trippy images reveal the colorful inner lives of bones

By Popular Science Team

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A small coronavirus breakthrough could aid in the search for a vaccine

By Ian Christopher Davis/The Conversation

astronaut in space doing experiments with growing human organs.

Space might be the perfect place to grow human organs

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You can get the flu twice in one year

By Lindzi Wessel

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Our average body temperatures seem to be dropping

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These gene-edited tomatoes grow in cute little bouquets suited to urban farming

Antibiotic over-prescription is worst for kids in low-income countries

By Sara Kiley Watson