A view of Moderna headquarters on May 08, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Moderna was given FDA approval to continue to phase 2 of Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine trials with 600 participants. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) Moderna Inc., a biotech company that develops pharmaceuticals, received $ 472 million award from the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and… Read More »
Your blood carries the memory of every pathogen you’ve ever encountered. If you’ve been infected with the coronavirus, your body most likely remembers that, too. Antibodies are the legacy of that encounter. Why, then, have so many people stricken by the virus discovered that they don’t seem to have antibodies? Blame the tests. Most commercial… Read More »
At the Women’s Health 2020 conference in June, Lee Cohen, MD, the director of the MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health, was honored as the recipient of the prestigious Vivian Pinn Award for Outstanding Research in Women’s Health and delivered the Vivian Pinn Research Keynote Lecture at the conference: Perinatal Psychiatry: Lessons Learned over Two… Read More »
It’s become clear that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t going to end anytime soon. This means that we are going to have to figure out how to live, and raise our children, when seemingly every action we take carries some risk. Youth sports can bring great benefits to children. Team sports offer opportunities for exercise, which… Read More »
Your screen keeps freezing. There’s an awkward audio delay. Six faces are staring out at you, and you’re staring down at your own face in the corner of the screen. Most of us reached Zoom fatigue a few weeks into the shutdown, yet it’s still a daily reality for most remote workers four months on.… Read More »
Temporary loss of smell, or anosmia, is the main neurological symptom and one of the earliest and most commonly reported indicators of COVID-19. Studies suggest it better predicts the disease than other well-known symptoms such as fever and cough, but the underlying mechanisms for loss of smell in patients with COVID-19 have been unclear. Now,… Read More »
n Health & Living, free with Monday’s Irish Independent, Norah Casey is evangelical about embracing exercise in middle age. We talk to a woman who was alerted to her skin cancer on a visit to the dental hygienist. We look at new research that shows the psychological advantages having a dog as a pet gives… Read More »
Warning: The following story contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season 5. Season five of Peaky Blinders premiered almost two years after season four, but the season was well worth the wait. Season five included a shocking finale and a surprise return by a character that everyone thought was dead, and fans are eager to find… Read More »