November 16, 2020
(Knowable Magazine) – What angers me most, though, are the months my dad and I were separated from each other. This might even be what killed him: Analyses from the UK and US have found a spike in deaths from … Read More
November 9, 2020
(STAT News) – On Monday, Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE announced that their experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidate prevented more than 90% of infections in healthy volunteers. Based on these encouraging data — potentially among the most effective for any infectious … Read More
November 3, 2020
(The Conversation) – Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitalized for COVID–19 in August. The first study used data from three hospitals in … Read More
October 28, 2020
(Nature) – An extensive study of genomic data from people in Africa has revealed more than three million previously undescribed genetic variants, many of them in populations whose DNA had never been sampled before. The study is a milestone in … Read More
October 21, 2020
(The New York Times) – I am a physician who contracted what was initially a fairly mild case of Covid-19 in early March. Seven months later, I remain substantially debilitated, with profound exhaustion and a heart rate that goes into … Read More
October 13, 2020
(STAT News) – The placebo response is a complex psychobiological phenomenon that describes the clinical improvement seen in patients taking dummy or sham medicines. It can also comprise some proportion of the measured effect among patients receiving active drugs. Multiple … Read More
October 12, 2020
(The Guardian) – Our society and its arrangements cannot cope with care, and yet care is an inherent part of human life – all of us will need to give or receive it at some point. Why, then, have we … Read More
October 8, 2020
(The Conversation) – In the earliest days of the pandemic, many immunologists, including me, assumed that patients who produced high quantities of antibodies early in infection would be free from disease. We were wrong. Several months into studying COVID-19, like … Read More
October 8, 2020
(STAT News) – The digital health gold rush is on. Teledoc’s $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo reflects the valuation and consumer demand for virtual care. The capital, talent, utilization — and, let’s face it, speculation — driving the boom are … Read More
October 7, 2020
(STAT News) – The link in the public’s mind between disability and mobility has led “hidden” disabilities, such as visual impairment or immunocompromise, often not being included in conversations about accommodation and support systems. The Covid-19 pandemic has made these … Read More
