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the laboratory services company hVivo has now grown enough of the delta variant of the coronavirus to start infecting human volunteers in a challenge trial.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

According to NASA, Mark Vande Hei, a current crew member on board the International Space Station, has suffered a "minor medical issue."
Medical

By Victor Tangermann

AI Blood Test Can Spot Lung Cancers With 90 Percent Accuracy
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

New Diabetes Treatment Involves a Robot “Docked” Inside Your Guts
Treatments

By Dan Robitzski

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

mRNA booster shots for COVID-19 may be available in the US starting next month. Many are still unvaccinated, but you should consider getting yours anyway.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A pharmacist was arrested for selling 125 blank CDC COVID vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers who wanted to fake their documents.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard researchers have discovered a connection between exposure to wildfire smoke with roughly 20,000 infections and 750 deaths due to COVID-19.
Viruses

By Tony Ho Tran

Both Moderna and Pfizer raised the price per dose of their COVID-19 vaccines in newly-negotiated contracts with the European Union.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary research suggests a possible answer for why the delta variant of COVID-19 is so much more infectious than others.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered a sort of fossil record of dozens of ancient, never-before-seen viruses in a sample of Tibetan ice.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists were able to lump every kind of cancer out there into two categories based on whether they express a single protein.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Israel is giving some citizens with weak immune systems a third Pfizer vaccine, making them the first COVID booster shots anywhere in the world.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The Teletubbies are supposedly vaccinated against the coronavirus, but something is a little bit off about their paperwork.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Juul paid the American Journal of Health Behavior $51,000 to have the entire May/June issue filled with 11 studies funded by the company.
Medical

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA approved a new weight loss drug called semaglutide that doctors say could be a valuable tool in new obesity treatments.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Police in India broke up an elaborate ring of scammers who injected thousands with saline water instead of the coronavirus vaccine.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it's investigating a rare but deadly bacterial infection in the United States.
Bacteria

By Tony Ho Tran

A Texas hospital just ousted over 150 employees who refused to get the coronavirus vaccine, comparing the workplace requirement to Nazism.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which collaborated with Pfizer to make a coronavirus vaccine, is now injecting patients with a vaccine for cancer.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists developed a pee test that they say can diagnose brain cancer before it's too late to treat or remove the tumor.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Bacteria could provide us with a far more effective and green method of extracting precious metals from used electric car batteries.
Bacteria

By Victor Tangermann

COVAX, the international vaccine program for less wealthy nations, is struggling due to low buy-in from richer countries that decided to hoard shots.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Three members of an independent advisory panel to the FDA resigned in protest after the agency approved a controversial Alzheimer's treatment.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Guangzhou, the the capital capital of China's most populous province Guandong, is experiencing a flare up of coronavirus cases.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found a key difference in the way that axolotls and mammals respond to injuries, potentially revealing a pathway to regenerative medicine.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, eating just 18 grams of mushroom a day, roughly the equivalent of two mushrooms, could almost halve the risk of cancer.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

A man tried to treat his bipolar disorder with psychedelic mushrooms. But after he injected instead of eating them, the shrooms grew inside his bloodstream.
Fungi

By Dan Robitzski

As COVID-19 vaccine supply outweights domestic demand in the US, travelers are coming to the country to grab some of the extras.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have found a new novel canine coronavirus discovered in a child who was hospitalized with pneumonia in Malaysia two years ago.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Zurich have modified a common respiratory virus called the adenovirus to eliminate tumors from the inside out.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

The Republic of Nauru announced that it's now vaccinated about 108 percent of its adult population against the coronavirus.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

While millions of people are offering up their arm to get a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, labs around the world are already working on the next generation.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

As the pandemic begins its 15th official year, doctors are seeing severe cancer cases that went ignored for too long for one reason or another.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

A week after spreading dangerous medical misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, Joe Rogan kind of dialed it back and clarified his statement.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have developed a highly effective vaccine for malaria that offers far better protection than any past attempts.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

A medical journal retracted a paper that claimed "current smoking was not associated with adverse outcome" in COVID-19 patients due to conflict of interest.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

According to Eran Segal, scientist at the Weizmann Institute, Israel has "pretty much eradicated COVID-19 from Israel, at least for the time being."
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that we'll probably need a third vaccine dose and frequent boosters to optimize our protection against the coronavirus.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA and CDC have called for a pause on the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine rollout to further investigate blood clot risk.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Despite widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines, people in the US are still trying to track down drugs that weren't designed to treat COVID symptoms.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers says it discovered entirely new coronaviruses in genetic data released by agricultural labs in China.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Multiple research teams are working toward a vaccine that protects against every coronavirus at once, including COVID-19 and the common cold.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine can be exhilarating. Not only from the personal security, but also the experience of a public health program actually working.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The death count as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been astronomical — but there may be an even bigger threat facing humanity today.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have designed a personalized cancer vaccine capable of inducing a years-long immune response that fights off melanoma.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study by the CDC, those who have been vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer no longer carry the virus.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists built a bacteria's genetic code from scratch and, after years of improvements, got it to reproduce just like the real thing.
Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental antibody treatment made adult mice regrow missing teeth, hinting that a treatment for people could be around the corner.
Treatments

By Dan Robitzski

German scientists have tested a special vaccine targeted at helping the body fight brain cancers for the first time in humans.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

President Joe Biden has announced that his administration has distributed 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in just 58 days.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

BioNTech cofounder Ozlem Tureci says that the company is returning to its original goal of developing a vaccine against cancer.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

An AI system originally designed to distinguish between different types of pastry in Japan in 2013 was adapted to identify cancers.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

Preliminary research suggests that coronavirus vaccines might also serve as a treatment for persistent long-hauler symptoms.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The marketing agency ICF Next promised employees a coronavirus vaccine. Instead, it was a surprise test on cybersecurity practices.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Pfizer executives recently announced that they're looking into raising the price of the coroanvirus vaccine once the worst of the pandemic is over.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study found that walking speed seemed to help predict COVID disease severity and deaths, regardless of related factors like obesity.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

As new data on how coronavirus vaccines protect against different variants emerges, the South African strain seems particularly troubling.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists submitted a new cancer medication for the FDA's approval without having experimented on a single animal.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Nanoprobes called bioharmonophores can seek out and bind to cancer cells, making them glow brightly under medical scanners.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

A group of 11,000 patients across England who have experienced symptoms of bowel cancer are lining up to receive a drug capsule with a camera inside of it.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

A Kroger clinic in Virginia accidentally gave some people injections of air instead of the coronavirus vaccines they thought they were getting.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski