The Battle Against the Fungal Apocalypse Is Just Beginning
The Battle Against the Fungal Apocalypse Is Just Beginning In February, a dermatologist in New York City contacted the state’s health department about two female...
A Crucial Early Warning System for Disease Outbreaks Is in Jeopardy
A Crucial Early Warning System for Disease Outbreaks Is in Jeopardy Internal dissent within the mostly volunteer disease-news network known as ProMED—which alerted the world...
The First Pill for Postpartum Depression Is Almost Here
The First Pill for Postpartum Depression Is Almost Here About one in eight women in the United States experiences postpartum depression after giving birth. Soon,...
Trans People’s Mental Health Is Being Weaponized Against Them
Trans People’s Mental Health Is Being Weaponized Against Them In the absence of rigorous research, attacks on gender-affirming care that cite psychiatric conditions appear to...
A Grid Collapse Would Make a Heat Wave Far Deadlier
A Grid Collapse Would Make a Heat Wave Far Deadlier Consider this nightmare scenario. For four days now, temperatures have soared past 110 degrees. Those...
The Long Covid Mystery Has a New Suspect
The Long Covid Mystery Has a New Suspect First, the team looked at monocytes gathered from the hospitalized Covid patients, or people with an active...
A Critical New Drug Is Coming—Unless Agriculture Gets There First
A Critical New Drug Is Coming—Unless Agriculture Gets There First Physicians have been eagerly anticipating olorofim, which represents a new class of fungal drug, technically termed...
The Search for Long Covid Treatments Takes a Promising Turn
The Search for Long Covid Treatments Takes a Promising Turn Three years in, the pandemic mania has settled to a rumbling hum. We’re back to...
A Deadly Cousin of Ebola Has Flared Up in Africa
A Deadly Cousin of Ebola Has Flared Up in Africa There aren’t large quantities of experimental vaccine doses readily available—just several thousand in total—but “we...
A Crucial Group of Covid Drugs Has Stopped Working
A Crucial Group of Covid Drugs Has Stopped Working The changing nature of the virus also makes it difficult to conduct human clinical trials and...