Category: 5. Health

Several new studies have identified biomarkers of COVID-19 and long COVID, which can tell us more about what causes the diseases. These findings can also help find ways to diagnose and treat long COVID, or identify people who are at high risk of developing…

When you lose your health insurance or switch to a plan that skimps on preventive care, something critical breaks.

The connection to your primary care provider, usually a doctor, gets severed. You stop getting routine checkups. Warning signs get missed. Medical problems that could have…

Walking around my neighborhood in the evening, I am hit by the smells of summer: fresh-cut grass, hamburgers grilling and a hint of swimming pool chlorine. These are also the smells of summers from my adolescence, and they remind me of Friday evenings at the community pool with my friends…

Procuring lifesaving drugs is a daunting challenge in many low- and middle-income countries. Essential treatments are often neither available nor affordable in these nations, even decades after the drugs entered the market.

Prospective buyers from these countries face a patent thicket,…

Facing a recommendation for spine surgery can certainly spark anxiety. The prospect of any operation is daunting,…

When people decide it’s time to eat healthier to lose weight or manage a health condition, they ask the same…

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