Apoorva Mandavilli
Climate change ripple effect: Rising temperatures allow mosquitoes to spread across Africa, bringing malaria with them
Mosquitoes that transmit malaria have moved away from the Equator by about three miles per year over the past century, ...
Will an HIV vaccine ever be developed? Failure of Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ global testing raises doubts
The only vaccine against H.I.V. still being tested in late-stage clinical trials has proved ineffective, its manufacturer announced on [January ...
Where did monkeypox come from? Genetic analysis suggests it’s been ‘silently’ circulating since 2018
When the first monkeypox cases were identified in early May, European health officials were stumped. The virus was not known ...
Will you need a second COVID booster shot? Probably not.
As people across the world grapple with the prospect of living with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, one question ...
Here are arguments for and against getting your child immunized against COVID
[Soon,] scientific advisers to the [FDA] will decide whether to endorse two doses of the vaccine for children 6 months ...
Omicron contains dozens of new mutations — but that doesn’t mean the variant is more dangerous
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has alarmed many scientists because of the sheer number of genetic mutations it carries ...
Do we need COVID booster shots? Hesitancy emerges among key Biden Administration health officials
Following a series of endorsements over the last month by scientific panels advising federal agencies, tens of millions of Americans ...
Unvaccinated Americans 11 times as likely as the vaccinated to die of COVID, research finds, bolstering case for mandatory shots
Just a day after President Biden issued broad mandates aimed at encouraging American workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, ...
Here’s why the CDC relaxed its mask policy a week after announcing confusing guidance
For months, federal officials have vigorously warned that wearing masks and social distancing were necessary to contain the pandemic. So ...
People with compromised immune systems are likeliest evolutionary source of rogue COVID variants
A coronavirus typically gains mutations on a slow-but-steady pace of about two per month. But this variant, called B.1.1.7, had ...
Infographic: Africa and Asia are lagging behind rest of the world in mass vaccinating their populations
More than 345 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide in the three months since mass inoculation began ...
When we get COVID-19 under control, here’s what it might turn into
The coronavirus is here to stay, but once most adults are immune — following natural infection or vaccination — the ...
HIV patients can now get monthly, FDA-approved injections, replacing multiple daily treatments
The Food and Drug Administration on [January 21] approved a combination of two monthly shots for treatment of H.I.V. in ...
COVID vaccine benefits appear to outweigh minimal potential dangers for pregnant and breastfeeding women
[T]he American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the S.M.F.M. and other organizations have been calling on the F.D.A. to allow pregnant and lactating ...
Which provides longer-lasting immunity: Getting COVID or a vaccine?
Which produces a stronger immune response: a natural infection or a vaccine? The short answer: We don’t know. But Covid-19 ...
As COVID is transmitted via airborne particles, there’s no evidence that sanitizing surfaces lowers risk of infection
All over the world, workers are soaping, wiping and fumigating surfaces with an urgent sense of purpose: to fight the ...
Women and HIV: 6 shots a year shown to be more effective than daily pill
Women have had only one approved option for pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a course of drugs taken to prevent contracting ...
After a vaccine or infection, how long will immunity to COVID last? It could be years, hopeful new data suggest
Eight months after infection, most people who have recovered still have enough immune cells to fend off the virus and prevent ...
Long hauler phenomenon explained? In some COVID survivors, normally protective antibodies turn on their own cells
At some point, the body’s defense system in [some COVID survivors shifts] into attacking itself, rather than the virus, [a ...
How COVID causes delirium
[A]bout half of [COVID] patients report neurological symptoms, including headaches, confusion and delirium, suggesting the virus may also attack the ...
Protective ‘herd immunity’ may come a lot sooner than predicted
To achieve so-called herd immunity — the point at which the virus can no longer spread widely because there are ...
Worse than COVID19: Millions of deaths expected from other diseases as pandemic crisis sucks resources
Until this year, TB and its deadly allies, H.I.V. and malaria, were on the run. The toll from each disease ...
Can you get the coronavirus more than once within a few months? Scientists now say that’s unlikely
A New Jersey doctor claimed several patients healed from one bout only to become reinfected with the coronavirus. And another doctor said ...
Coronavirus antibody tests: Can they return us to ‘normal’?
When will life return to normal, or at least a new normal? A major answer to the question of when ...
Cytokine storms: How your own body fights against you during a coronavirus infection
When the body first encounters a virus or a bacterium, the immune system ramps up and begins to fight the ...
FDA approves rapid blood test for coronavirus antibodies. Could help determine who has ‘some’ immunity.
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new test for coronavirus antibodies, the first for use in the ...
Why are girls with autism constantly misdiagnosed?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It took 10 years, ...