Tag: Research
Cancer Patients Are at High Risk of Depression and Suicide, Studies Find
One day years ago, during her training in neurology, Dr. Corinna Seliger-Behme met a man with end-stage bladder…
Bobcats With a Taste for Python Eggs Might Be the Guardians of Florida’s Swamp
The voracious appetite of the invasive Burmese python is causing Florida’s mammal and bird populations to plummet. With…
Does Social Media Make Teens Unhappy? It May Depend on Their Age.
Still, research looking for a direct relationship between social media and well-being has not found much.“There’s been absolutely…
Their Family Business? The Other Dimension.
Lisette Coly and Anastasia Damalas are at a crossroads.But, on a recent late-winter morning, they were also in…
Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
While health surveillance is weak, he acknowledged, Sierra Leoneans have the recent, terrible experience of Ebola, which killed…
Brain Implant Allows Fully Paralyzed Patient to Communicate
In 2020 Ujwal Chaudhary, a biomedical engineer then at the University of Tübingen and the Wyss Center for…
Toronto’s Tech Industry Is Quietly Booming
“This is now a place to make a long-term bet — to build connections with the cluster of…
Pfizer and BioNTech Seek Authorization of a Second Booster Shot for Older Americans
But since Israel only recently began its second booster program, researchers could not determine whether the added protection…
Which Coronavirus Vaccine Will Work in the Youngest Children?
WASHINGTON — Over the past 10 months, as tens of millions of children and teenagers received the Pfizer-BioNTech…
What We Know About the ‘Stealth’ BA.2 Omicron Variant
As the Omicron coronavirus surge subsides, researchers are keeping an eye on a highly transmissible subvariant known as…
Covid May Cause Changes in the Brain, New Study Finds
Covid-19 may cause greater loss of gray matter and tissue damage in the brain than naturally occurs in…
How the Coronavirus Steals the Sense of Smell
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has…