July 22, 2025
(NBC News) – The stress of lockdowns, fear and social isolation appear to have left a mark on our brains. Experts say it may be possible to counteract the changes. Brain aging may have sped up during the pandemic, even … Read More
July 8, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Although many skeptics have overreacted, rejecting sound science in favor of quack theories, they’ve gotten one thing right: A noble profession has been corrupted by politics. This became obvious during the pandemic, but the politicization of the … Read More
July 7, 2025
Journal of Medical Humanities (vol. 46, no 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 2, 2025
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official rejected broad uses of two Covid vaccines, citing unknown risks or injuries despite assurances of safety from dozens of staff experts, newly released documents show. The decisions by … Read More
July 2, 2025
(Wired) – Another NEW covid variant is currently rapidly gaining a foothold. Known officially as XFG—or informally as “Stratus”—it has been declared a “variant under monitoring” by the World Health Organization (WHO), and is expected to circulate alongside the now … Read More
July 2, 2025
(Axios) – Moderna is preparing to test Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tougher vaccine policies with a combination flu-COVID shot. The question is whether it gets approved for both viruses. Why it matters: The company this week reported positive … Read More
June 25, 2025
(ABC News) – The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has expanded existing warnings on the two leading COVID-19 vaccines about a rare heart side effect mainly seen in young men. Myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation that is … Read More
June 12, 2025
(The Hill) – Nimbus is a descendant of the Omicron variant of the virus and was first identified in late January. Its spike mutations appear to make it more transmissible than other COVID-19 variants, according to the WHO. Spike mutations … Read More
June 12, 2025
(Axios) – The U.S. death rate from alcohol-related liver disease roughly doubled over two decades and was exacerbated by the pandemic, with women, young adults and Indigenous people experiencing the sharpest rise, a study in JAMA Network Open found. Why … Read More
June 10, 2025
(Wired) – NB.1.8.1 has mutations that could increase the virus’s transmissibility and decrease the efficacy of certain neutralizing antibodies against it. A new Covid variant is being kept under surveillance by the World Health Organization (WHO) as its emergence has … Read More
May 30, 2025
(New York Times) – Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely counters Mr. … Read More
May 28, 2025
(Gizmodo) – A new Omicron offshoot is spreading fast across Australia and Asia, prompting renewed concerns about the covid-19 pandemic. As we enter the colder months in Australia, covid is making headlines again, this time due to the emergence of … Read More
May 27, 2025
(Forbes) – Remember COVID-19? That illness that’s killed around 350 people a week in the United States over the past month and continues to leave more and more people with long COVID? Remember the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 … Read More
May 27, 2025
(Associated Press) – U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women — a move immediately questioned by several public health experts. In a 58-second video … Read More
May 26, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – This week, two new leaders at the US Food and Drug Administration announced plans to limit access to covid vaccines, arguing that there is not much evidence to support the value of annual shots in healthy … Read More
May 23, 2025
(Ars Technica) – Expert advisors for the Food and Drug Administration met Thursday to discuss which virus strain this year’s updated COVID-19 vaccines should target. The advisors have been meeting around this time each year for such a strain selection, … Read More
May 20, 2025
(Associated Press) – The Food and Drug Administration has issued a long-awaited approval of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine but with unusual restrictions. Novavax makes the nation’s only traditional protein-based coronavirus vaccine – and until now it had emergency authorization from FDA … Read More
May 16, 2025
(UPI) – Millions of “long COVID” patients coping with debilitating “brain fog” and chronic fatigue, who are looking for answers to what’s at the root of their illness, received a hopeful sign through a new study released Thursday. The answers, … Read More
May 7, 2025
(New York Times) – As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade. In a study … Read More
April 25, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Federal regulators are asking Novavax to complete an additional randomized clinical trial on its Covid-19 vaccine after previously delaying approval, people familiar with the matter said, a request that could be so prohibitively expensive the company … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Axios) – Driving with a case of COVID raised the odds of having a car crash about as much as being at the legal threshold of DUI or running a red light, according to an analysis of pandemic-era public health … Read More
April 23, 2025
(ABC News) – Novavax’s closely watched COVID-19 vaccine is on track for full approval after additional discussions with the Food and Drug Administration, the company said Wednesday. The news sent company shares soaring more than 21% in morning trading and … Read More
April 22, 2025
(The Verge) – Covid[dot]gov, the government website where you could previously find information about covid, now redirects to a page that pushes the conspiracy theory that the virus originated from a lab. Navigating to the website reveals a prominent banner … Read More
April 18, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Five years after the World Health Organization declared covid a global pandemic and the first Trump administration announced a national emergency, the United States faces a crucial shortage of medical providers, below the projected need for … Read More
April 17, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Of the many mistakes made in the COVID era, none were as glaring as prolonged school closures. The damages go beyond loss of learning, a dire consequence in its own right: Millions of families, both children and … Read More
