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Several counties in Florida are scheduling coronavirus vaccinations through Eventbrite, raising multiple issues with the system.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to electrodes implanted in his brain, a man was able to feed himself with two robotic arms, controlling them with nothing more than his thoughts.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

As patients in Los Angeles get the coronavirus vaccine, they can also get digital proof of their inoculation that could work like an "immunity passport."
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok parent company ByteDance is assembling a team of AI experts that it hopes will build AI to develop new pharmaceuticals.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

A new nanomaterial biosensor can spot coronavirus antibodies — and track whether the vaccine is working — in ten seconds.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A Chilean research base on Antarctica reported 36 new infections, including 26 members of the Chilean army and 10 maintenance workers.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

On Monday, Biden received the first of two shots that make up the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. He was inoculated on camera to boost public trust in the shot.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

According to CDC data, US health workers have already administered more than half a million COVID-19 vaccine doses in the first week.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

The wealthy are offering up tens of thousands of dollars to jump the line and get their COVID-19 vaccine early, the LA Times reports.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

COVID-19 is on track to become the leading cause of death in the U.S., beating the daily death tolls for cancer and heart disease combined.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Once the FDA approved a coronavirus vaccine, almost-certainly-fake listings for vaccines on the black market vastly increased in number.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Ian McKellen says he feels "euphoric" after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, and he urges everyone who can to get vaccinated as well.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A strip club in Oregon has created a drive-thru strip club experience to keep their business going during a worldwide pandemic.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors who perform surgery on their birthday seem to lose more patients than on any other day, according to a new study on emergency operations.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just granted emergency approval to the first over-the-counter coronavirus test, making tests vastly more accessible in the U.S.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The virst COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed in the U.S. Now, Fauci says he's afraid too many people won't want to get it.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Blocking a single protein called 15-PGDH made old mice much stronger and healthier, as though they had been made younger as a result.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental robot pill grows needles made of sugar when swallowed and inject medications — from inside someone's intestine.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

The pharmaceutical distributor AvKare issued a recall for trazodone and sildenafil after the two were mixed together in the same bottles.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

AstraZeneca didn't tell the FDA it halted its coronavirus vaccine trial after a volunteer got sick. The ommission could hurt the company's credibility.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Back in July, the White House turned down an offer to buy hundreds of millions of extra doses of Pfizer's vaccine for COVID-19.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

More and more people were binge drinking more often in mid-April than they were in mid-March, thanks specifically to the pandemic.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The federal government says it can dole out 40 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine — enough for 20 million people — this month. Experts say probably not.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama agreed to take the COVID-19 vaccine in public to bolster confidence that it's safe.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

INTERPOL warns that organized crime groups will likely try to hoard COVID-19 vaccines or sell their own fraudulent versions.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The UK has officially licensed the COVID-19 vaccine developed by multinational pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German partner BioNTech.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A volunteer in the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine trial alleges that he suffered severe neurological side effects, a claim that the researchers deny.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Moderna plans to submit its COVID-19 vaccine to the FDA on Monday. The company's CMO says the data is so good he was moved to tears.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Operation Warp Speed officials just announced that the first coronavirus vaccines would be distributed based on state population rather than need.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A new CDC report confirms what ought to be common knowledge: widespread mask-wearing helps slow down the spread of the coronavirus.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Greenhouse gas emissions dipped during the coronavirus pandemic, but not enough to have a serious or lasting effect on global climate change.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

UK's Oxford University and AstraZeneca have announced their COVID-19 vaccine is up to 90 percent effective according to preliminary study results.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Instead of sitting on Santa's lap this year, families can chat online with an AI Santa or stand behind a giant plexiglass barrier.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Pfizer just announced its coronavirus vaccine is 95 percent effective with no serious side effects — even more effective than previously thought.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Biopharmaceutical Moderna has announced its COVID-19 vaccine has proven to be 94.5 percent effective according to preliminary results.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have a counterintuitive approach to distributing limited COVID-19 vaccines: Inoculate the superspreaders who'd otherwise keep infecting others.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

We just got our first look at an upcoming movie called "Songbird," produced by the one and only Michael Bay — and it's a doozy.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A series of visualizations show how the dangers of indoor COVID-19 transmission can be mitigated but not eliminated with masks and ventilation.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

According to early results, a vaccine for COVID-19 being tested by Oxford University and AstraZeneca is effective in both older adults and young people.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

New research concludes that if if 95 percent of Americans would wear a mask, we could prevent nearly 130,000 deaths caused by COVID-19.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A placebo-controlled study identified which impacts of microdosing LSD, from improved focus to anxiety, emerge at which dosages.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

UK researchers are preparing for a controversial experiment involving injecting healthy human test subjects with the coronavirus.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

While a popular politically-motivated document calls for the U.S. to focus on herd immunity against COVID-19, but doctors agree that it would be disastrous.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A woman died after catching the coronavirus, even though she had recovered from COVID-19 months prior. It's the first confirmed death linked to reinfection.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A coronavirus patient caught the disease on two separate occasions, and the second time around was even more severe than the first.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A new colonoscopy robot sounds terrifying, but it might actually make for a smoother ride than having a human doctor steer the endoscope.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

As a temporary boost in the fight against COVID-19, a team of U.K. scientists are experimenting with a tuberculosis vaccine from 1921.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Research shows that the human species is rapidly evolving: The percent of people with a medial artery in their forearms has grown over the last 150 years.
Medical

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors studying the cadavers of people who died from COVID-19 identified traces of the coronavirus in half of their brains.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

A new hydrogel, when implanted into rats and toads, worked like a bridge between damaged nerves and healed them faster than other techniques.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are using viruses harvested from common plants to create cancer immunotherapies — and they've already proven to be effective in animal models.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

Pharamceutical companies have different definitions of success for their COVID-19 vaccines, making it hard to tell if the first vaccine will be the best.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

CNBC reports that side effects of several COVID vaccines can include high fever, exhaustion, and headaches. They mostly don't last for more than a day.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists uncovered a series of epigenetic changes that seem to predict late-onset Alzheimer's disease, hinting at the possibility of future treatments.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just announced the discovery of two organisms that eats viruses — the first credible finding of that type of creature.
Viruses

By Jon Christian

The World Health Organization and other groups are coordinating a global effort to distribute COVID-19 vaccines. The U.S. refused to help.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

When Congress allocated $1 billion to the Pentagon to shore up medical supplies, it instead funneled the money to military contractors.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

In a new paper in the journal Science, a team of scientists has a blunt request: please stop injecting yourselves with homebrewed COVID vaccines.
Viruses

By Jon Christian

Thousands of people in northwest China have caught a bacterial disease after a leak caused an outbreak at a biopharmaceutical last year, CNN reports.
Bacteria

By Victor Tangermann

Numerous experts are saying that a scientific paper claiming COVID is a bioweapon made elementary errors and relies on a shaky interpretation of evidence.
Viruses

By Jon Christian

In a new interview, Gates says he's still optimistic that a vaccine is on the way. But it's unlikely, he said, that there'll be one by the end of the year.
Viruses

By Jon Christian

A team of researchers have found a way to biosynthesize tiny gold nanoparticles directly within cancer cells to aid in x-ray imaging — and to destroy them.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

When a volunteer in AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial fell sick, the entire study had to be put on hold to see if it was a side effect.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski