Specialists who haven’t worked an intensive care shift in years are being pressed into duty as coronavirus cases overwhelm New…
Treating COVID-19 in a patient with multiple myeloma
A case study of a patient in Wuhan, China, suggests that the immunosuppressant tocilizumab may be an effective COVID-19 treatment…
COVID-19 pandemic may exacerbate childhood obesity
Public health scientists predict that school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate the epidemic of childhood obesity in…
Coronavirus: Virological findings from patients treated in a Munich hospital
New research has detailed the clinical course and treatment of Germany’s first group of COVID-19 patients. Criteria may now be…
Possible coronavirus drug identified
A new study has shown that an anti-parasitic drug already available around the world can kill the virus within 48…
Tissue dynamics provide clues to human disease
Scientists have studied oscillating patterns of gene expression, coordinated across time and space within a tissue grown in vitro, to…
Stress thwarts our ability to plan ahead by disrupting how we use memory
Pairing brain scans with virtual-navigation tasks, researchers found that people make less efficient and effective plans when stressed.
Gita Ramjee, a Leading AIDS Researcher, Dies at 63
Working in South Africa, she led studies and drug trials, hoping to overcome not only H.I.V. but also cultural barriers…
Gita Ramjee, a Leading AIDS Researcher, Dies at 63
Working in South Africa, she led studies and drug trials, hoping to overcome not only H.I.V. but also cultural barriers…
Clues to COVID-19 coronavirus’s vulnerability emerge from an antibody against SARS
An antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s has revealed a potential vulnerability of…