Scientists have created candidate vaccines, which eventually could protect billions of people from COVID-19, with astonishing speed, compressing scientific efforts that usually take years…
On Monday, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, announced that the agency will undergo a monthlong review to…
When a patient with cancer is told the devastating news that their disease has spread, or metastasized, to a new part of their body,…
A single-shot vaccine for COVID-19 being developed by a group of scientists, led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) immunologist Dan H. Barouch,…
As female representation rose dramatically in U.S. medical schools, the number of Black men in academic medicine stagnated or decreased, according to a special…
While it is primarily a respiratory disease, COVID-19 infection affects other organs, including the brain. One of the first spectroscopic imaging-based studies of neurological…
When it comes to traumatic injuries, it’s a race against time. A person with major hemorrhage can die from blood loss within minutes. Bleeding…
When you think about progressive brain disorders that cause dementia, you usually think of memory problems. But sometimes language problems — also known as…
This Thanksgiving, it may be better to forget about even trying to pretend things are normal. Instead, Karestan Koenen suggested acknowledging up-front that it…