As humans explore worlds beyond Earth on longer missions in the future, it’s crucial to understand how our bodies may react to a sustained lack of gravity and radiation exposure. The 2019 NASA Twins Study provided an all-encompassing look at the effects of spending nearly a year in space on the human body when NASA…… MORE
The coronavirus pandemic is raging across the US as cases explode and deaths spike. More than 2,100 Covid-19-related deaths were reported Tuesday, the highest single-day number since May. The United States recorded more than 171,000 new cases, Johns Hopkins University reported. A record-breaking number of patients are hospitalized at more than 88,000, the highest number…… MORE
Dear Mom: You mean the world to me. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, we can’t celebrate your 50th birthday in person like we had envisioned earlier this year. I sit here working from home and quarantining as CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy…… MORE
More than 2,100 Covid-19 deaths were reported in the US on Tuesday — making it the highest single day death toll the country has seen since early May. The most deaths in a single day were recorded April 15 — 2,603 people. When cases and hospitalizations began to surge weeks ago, officials predicted deaths would…… MORE
In March, Claire Tripeny was watching her dream job fall apart. She’d been working as an intensive care nurse at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, and loved it, despite the mediocre pay typical for the region. But when Covid-19 hit, that calculation changed. She remembers her employers telling her and her colleagues to “suck…… MORE
A Brown University economics professor said she is surprised to hear the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is relying on a website she started to promote in-person learning for schoolchildren. At a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing last Thursday, Dr. Robert Redfield said that a growing body of data…… MORE
There’s good news about coronavirus vaccines. At least three of the experimental vaccines show remarkable efficacy, at least according to information released by the makers in news releases. Global vaccine giant AstraZeneca reports its vaccine prevented coronavirus infection 62% of the time when people got two doses a month apart. But in a subgroup of…… MORE
Sixty one percent of Americans have changed their Thanksgiving plans due to recent spikes in Covid-19 cases, according to new poll results released Tuesday by Axios-Ipsos. The most common changes reported were seeing only immediate household members and having a smaller dinner than originally planned, according to the poll, which was based on a nationally…… MORE
As the country grapples with surging coronavirus cases, some hospitals, clinics and nursing facilities are still struggling to maintain adequate supplies of personal protective equipment. After international supply chains were severely disrupted in early in the pandemic, states were left battling each other for limited shares of PPE. Hospitals and other facilities, especially in the…… MORE
Covid is surging exponentially in much of the country, with six new infections every second and one death every minute. Many states are hitting record highs every week. Things are going to get worse — possibly much worse — before they get better. Vaccines will be life-saving and may allow us to curb the pandemic,…… MORE
