reader comments 28 with Even after 140 years of its discovery, malaria remains one of the deadliest infections humans have ever encountered. It affected 247 million individuals and was responsible for over 600,000 deaths in 2022, according to the World Health Organization. What’s more shocking is that 95 percent of malaria cases and deaths are ..
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Brandon Martin/Rice University reader comments 33 with On average, patients with chronic illnesses follow their prescribed treatments about 50 percent of the time. That’s a problem. If drugs aren’t taken regularly, on time, and in the right doses, the treatment may not work, and the person’s condition can worsen. The issue isn’t that people are ..
Enlarge / The BPClip in action. Yinan Xuan et al. reader comments 37 with Given that 47 percent of adults in the US alone have hypertension, keeping on top of your blood pressure readings is a smart thing to do. And doing so could become much more convenient, requiring nothing more than your phone and ..
Enlarge / On May 22, John Timmer (left) moderated a panel featuring Karin Bok (center) and Nathaniel Wang (right) for the Ars Frontiers 2023 session titled, “Beyond COVID: What Does mRNA Technology Mean for Disease Treatment?” Ars Technica reader comments 20 with The world of biomedicine has developed a lot of technology that seems a ..
reader comments 24 with In December 2022, founder Elon Musk gave an update on his other, other company, the brain implant startup Neuralink. As early as 2020, the company had been saying it was close to starting clinical trials of the implants, but the December update suggested those were still six months away. This time, ..
reader comments 26 with Share this story On December 18, 2019, Wuhan Central Hospital admitted a patient with symptoms common for the winter flu season: a 65-year-old man with fever and pneumonia. Ai Fen, director of the emergency department, oversaw a typical treatment plan, including antibiotics and anti-influenza drugs. Six days later, the patient was ..
Enlarge / The Comirnaty (Pfizer/BioNTech) and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. reader comments 511 with Share this story Two Republican lawmakers in Idaho have introduced a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for anyone in the state to administer mRNA-based vaccines—namely the lifesaving and remarkably safe COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. If passed as ..
Enlarge / Those lab coats aren’t going to protect you from your own biases. reader comments 152 with 0 posters participating Share this story It’s no secret that ideology is one of the factors that influences which evidence people will accept. But it was a bit of a surprise that ideology could dominate decision-making in ..
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, which causes gonorrhea. reader comments 87 with 0 posters participating Share this story The most highly drug-resistant cases of gonorrhea detected in the US to date appeared in two unrelated people in Massachusetts, state health officials announced Thursday. The cases mark the first time that US isolates ..
reader comments 95 with 0 posters participating Share this story COVID vaccines remain the safest way to reduce the chance that SARS-CoV-2 can put you in the hospital and are a critical component of the public health campaign against the pandemic. Yet, in the US, there has been lots of controversy and outright anger about ..