Medicine Stories for 2020

Private Party App Pulled From App Store by Apple 193
The Secret to Longevity? 4-Minute Bursts of Intense Exercise May Help 82
Many Formerly-Skeptical Americans are Now Eager to Get Covid-19 Vaccines 247
Can mRNA Biotechnology be Adapted to Improve Flu Vaccines and Fight Cancer? 75
The World's Most Loathed Industry Gave Us a Vaccine in Record Time 443
Pfizer To Supply US With 100 Million More Vaccine Doses 57
What Scientists Know About the Coronavirus Variant Spreading In the UK 125
Fired COVID-19 Data Manager Rebekah Jones Sues FDLE Over Raid On Her Home 144
Stanford Algorithm Decided To Vaccinate Only Seven of Its Frontline COVID-19 Workers, Out of 5,000 Doses 126
Pfizer, BioNTech Covid Vaccine Wins European Backing 50
How the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Fought the Pandemic 144
New UK Strain of Coronavirus More Infectious, Say Government Scientists 156
Biomarker of Alzheimer's Found To Be Regulated By Sleep Cycles 23
FDA Panel Endorses Moderna's Coronavirus Vaccine 73
Wildfire Smoke Is Loaded With Microbes. Is That Dangerous? 33
The First Person In the UK To Have Air Pollution Listed As a Cause of Death 79
FDA Authorizes 1st Home Coronavirus Test That Doesn't Require A Prescription 61
Germany Orders Electric Air Taxis To Carry Emergency Doctors 50
Poor Countries Face Long Wait for Vaccines Despite Promises 235
'New Variant' of Coronavirus Identified in UK, Health Secretary Says 74
Covid-19 Deaths Rose In US College Towns When Students Returned 264
AstraZeneca Tries Combining Its Covid-19 Vaccine With Russia's 'Sputnik V' Vaccine 80
America's Covid-19 Hospitalizations Hit a Record High For the 7th Straight Day 236
America's Covid-19 Deaths Likely to Exceed 9/11's Death Toll Every Day, For Two Months 387
Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days 98
Boston Biotech Conference Led To 245,000 COVID-19 Cases Across US 43
FDA Approves Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use in America 222
Florida Governor Defends Police Raid On COVID Data Whistleblower 145
FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Pfizer's Covid Vaccine For Emergency Use 152
Salesforce Claims Its AI Can Spot Signs of Breast Cancer With 92% Accuracy 24
MDMA-Assisted Couples Therapy Investigated In Landmark Pilot Trial 68
UK Warns People With Serious Allergies To Avoid Pfizer Vaccine 175
EU Agency in Charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Approval Says it Was Hacked 40
Pfizer's Vaccine Offers Strong Protection After First Dose 190
Did COVID Data Whistleblower Hack Florida's Emergency Alert System? Police Raid Home 210
The World's First DNA 'Tricorder' In Your Pocket 54
California Partners With Apple and Google For COVID-19 Contact Tracing On Phones 61
Celebrating the Path-Breaking Research That Lead to Coronavirus Vaccines 134
New Report: Havanna Syndrome Could Be Directed Microwave Energy 86
Are America's Hospitals Becoming Overwhelmed? 312
Reversal of Biological Clock Restores Vision In Old Mice 53
Pfizer Halves Covid-19 Vaccine Shipments For 2020 Due To Supply-Chain Problems 57
AstraZeneca and Oxford's Stories Clash on COVID-19 Vaccine 56
Facebook Will Take Down Misinformation About Covid Vaccines 147
UK Becomes the First Country To Approve Pfizer/BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine, Roll Out To Start Next Week 109
No One Who Got Moderna's Vaccine In Trial Developed Severe COVID-19 177
The Pope Praises Medical Workers, Criticizes 'Personal Freedom' Protests 196
America's Top Court Strikes Down Covid-19 Restriction On Religious Groups 465
Evidence Builds That an Early Mutation Made the Pandemic Harder to Stop 176
Astra Likely To Run Additional Global Vaccine Test, CEO Says 45
Psilocybin and Migraine: First of Its Kind Trial Reports Promising Results 61
The Oxford Vaccine Is 70% Effective, Cheaper and Easier To Store and Distribute 129
These Algorithms Could Bring an End To the World's Deadliest Killer 21
Experimental Antibody Treatment for Covid-19 Patients Wins 'Emergency Approval' in America 81
In the Last Week America Experienced 1 Million New Coronavirus Cases 276
Masks are Effective, Despite One Flawed Study From Denmark 152
T-Mobile Becomes First Carrier To Enable 988 Number For Mental Health Services 42
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter Align To Fight Covid Vaccine Conspiracies 116
Oxford Study Confirms Astra Covid Shot's Response in Elderly 67
New Pfizer Results: Coronavirus Vaccine Is Safe and 95% Effective 231
Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution May Be a Logistical Nightmare 143
Amazon Launches Amazon Pharmacy For Prescription Medicine Delivery 36
Coronavirus Emerged In Italy Earlier Than Thought, Study Shows 185
Moderna Becomes Second Firm To Reveal Positive Results With Nearly 95% Protection In Trials 119
Study Claims 18% of Covid Patients Later Diagnosed with Mental Illness 116
Showing Cold Symptoms, Elon Musk Tests Positive - and Negative - for Covid-19 216
India To Get 100 Million Astra Vaccine Shots by Next Month 49
Microsoft: Russian, North Korean Cyberattacks Target COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts 28
Screening Travelers For Symptoms of COVID-19 Was Ineffective, CDC Study Says 88
Researchers 3-D Print Biomedical Parts With Supersonic Speed 14
Russian COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Encouraging Results 81
Ticketmaster To Require Negative COVID-19 Test Or Vaccination To Attend Concerts 152
Why It's a Big Deal If the First COVID-19 Vaccine Is 'Genetic' 245
Shot To Prevent HIV Works Better Than Daily Pill in Women 45
Pfizer Stuns Experts With Early Data that Vaccine Is More Than 90% Effective 299
New Nasal Spray Prevents Covid Infection in Ferrets, Study Finds 90
President Biden Will Rejoin the World Health Organization on His First Day 281
Woman Sheds Coronavirus For 70 Days Without Symptoms 126
The T-Cell Immune Response To COVID-19 Lasts At Least Six Months 49
MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even In Asymptomatic People 43
Oregon Becomes First State To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms 111
UK Contact Tracing App Failed To Flag People Exposed To COVID-19 46
Tiny Variants In Genes May Dictate Severity of Coronavirus 53
Australia Records Zero New COVID-19 Infections 220
In World First, Slovokia Plans To Test the Entire Country For COVID-19 80
Linux Foundation Creates Its Own Versions of Apple/Google Coronavirus Tracing Apps 50
Moderna On Track to Report COVID-19 Vaccine Late-Stage Trial Data in November 91
While Europe Accounts for 46% of COVID-19 Cases, Taiwan Goes 200 Days Without a Local Infection 305
'Time Cells' Discovered In Human Brains 18
Folding@Home Exascale Supercomputer Finds Potential Targets For COVID-19 Cure 38
Russia Orders National Mask Mandate As COVID-19 Cases Spike 59
UK Study Finds Evidence of Waning Antibody Immunity To COVID-19 Over Time 94
Verily's COVID Testing Program Halted in San Francisco and Oakland 43
Vaccine Hopes Rise as Oxford Jab Prompts Immune Response Among Old as Well as Young Adults 77
FDA Approves Gilead's Remdesivir as Coronavirus Treatment 77
No, Mouthwash Will Not Save You From the Coronavirus 186
Scientists Discover a New Organ In the Throat 52
Offices Resort To Sensors In Futile Attempts To Keep Workers Apart 96
Stupid Russian Disinformation Campaign Targets Oxford Vaccine 147
Fitness Influencer Who'd Believed Covid-19 'Didn't Exist' Dies of Covid-19 286
How Ransomware Puts Your Hospital At Risk 35
College President Resigns After 712 Students Test Positive For Covid-19 153
Home-Made Covid Vaccine Appeared to Work, but Questions Remained 70
US Surpasses 8 Million Coronavirus Cases 431
Oxford Scientists Develop 5-Minute COVID-19 Antigen Test 42
Remdesivir Has Little Effect on Covid-19 Mortality, WHO Study Says 162
Anthony Fauci on the Coronavirus and the Prospects for a Vaccine 94
Blood Type May Affect Severity of COVID-19 Infection, New Study Suggests 59
From a Small Town in North Carolina To Big-City Hospitals, How Software Infuses Racism Into U.S. Health Care 242
A Man Caught Coronavirus Twice -- and It Was Worse the Second Time 253
The Race for a Super-Antibody Against the Coronavirus 98
China's Qingdao To Test 9 Million in Five Days 107
Harvard, Oxford, Stanford Docs Among Leaders of Global Anti-Lockdown Movement 340
What if a Medical Treatment Could Change Your Political Or Religious Beliefs? 233
He Called it a 'Scamdemic' - Then Saw His Family Getting Sick 561
Study of 11,000 Kids Links Cannabis Use During Pregnancy To Child Behavioral Change 82
New England Journal of Medicine Resoundingly Endorses Biden 363
Electric Shocks To the Tongue Can Quiet Chronic Ringing Ears 75
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded To Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Virus 17
Some Coronavirus Vaccine Trials Resort To Pen and Paper After Ransomware Hits Software 81
Hydroxychloroquine Advocate Angry Donald Trump Took 'Experimental Antibody Stupidness' 287
Twitter Says You Cannot Tweet That You Hope Trump Dies From COVID-19 308
The Apple Watch Heart Monitor Sends Too Many People To the Doctor 43
Trump Goes To Hospital After Testing Positive For COVID-19 279
550 Million Chinese Traveling In Biggest Holiday Since COVID-19 48
Great North Air Ambulance Trials Paramedic Jet Suit 53
In Brazil's Amazon a COVID-19 Resurgence Dashes Herd Immunity Hopes 134
'Why Modeling the Spread of COVID-19 Is So Damn Hard' 117
Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 Vaccine Produces Strong Immune Response in Early Trial 48
Vaccine Maker Novavax Enters Final Large-Scale Testing of Its Covid-19 Vaccine 57
MS Treatment a Step Closer After Drug Shown To Repair Nerve Coating 20
'Extremely Brilliant Source' X-Rays Set To Revolutionize Science 77
$1 Hearing Aid Could Treat Millions With Hearing Loss 83
3D Printing Inside the Body Could Patch Stomach Ulcers 34
Could Open Source Licensing Stop Big Pharma Profiteering On Taxpayer-Funded Covid-19 Vaccines? 81
Bacterial Outbreak Infects Thousands After Factory Leak In China 46
America Is Facing a Monkey Shortage 159
AstraZeneca Resumes Coronavirus Vaccine Study 85
CDC Report Links Dining Out To Increased COVID-19 Risk 129
Theranos' Holmes May Pursue 'Mental Disease' In Her Defense 98
Apple Design Teams Develop Special Face Masks for Employees 42
AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Study Put on Hold 123
A New Theory Asks: Could a Mask Be a Crude 'Vaccine'? 147
A $5 Million Prize Spurs Competition for New Covid-19 Rapid Test 53
More Covid-19 Reinfections Found, But Researchers Urge Caution 139
'Ultra-Processed' Junk Food Linked to Advanced Aging at Cellular Level, Study Finds 126
Results of Russia's COVID-19 Vaccine Produced Antibody Response 140
Large Antibody Study Offers Hope For Virus Vaccine Efforts 62
US Will Not Pay Millions In Dues To WHO This Year 186
Dozens of Scientists Around the World Are Giving Themselves DIY Coronavirus Vaccines 143
A Supercomputer Analyzed COVID-19, and an Interesting New Hypothesis Has Emerged 251
US Says It Won't Join WHO-Linked Effort To Develop, Distribute Coronavirus Vaccine 215
Coronavirus: Apple iPhones Can Contact-Trace Without COVID-19 App 60
Complain Like the French To Boost Health Or Spiral Into the Negative? 81
Some Scientists 'Uneasy' About the Race For a Covid-19 Vaccine 174
American Sleep Medicine Professionals Call For an End to Daylight Saving Time 130
How a Covid-19 Outbreak Spared Masked Starbucks Employees 120
Nevada Man Becomes First In the US To Catch COVID-19 Twice 236
A Closer Look At Elon Musk's Neuralink Surgical Robot 44
The Coronavirus is Most Deadly if You Are Older and Male -- New Data Reveal the Risks 253
FDA Approves $5 Rapid Coronavirus Test That Doesn't Require Special Computer 55
Elon Musk Promises Demo of a Working Neuralink Device On Friday 51
Biogen Conference Likely Led To 20,000 COVID-19 Cases In Boston Area 35
Two European Cases of COVID-19 Reinfection Reported 69
Africa Declared Free of Wild Polio in 'Milestone' 111
First Covid-19 Reinfection Has Been Documented 168
New Zealand Can't Find Source of Its New Covid-19 Cases 199
750 Million Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Approved For Release In Florida Keys 104
With the Most Deaths In 150 Years, Sweden Reveals New COVID-19 Test-and-Trace Strategy 249
California Reports First Human Plague Case In 5 Years 99
Facebook and NYU Set Out To Develop AI-Powered 5-Minute MRI Scan 30
AI Company Leaks Over 2.5 Million Medical Records 23
WHO Blasts 'Vaccine Nationalism' in Last-Ditch Push Against Hoarding 100
'Covid-19 Is Creating a Wave of Heart Disease' 163
'We Won't Remember Much of What We Did in the Pandemic' 77
Previous Vaccines and Masks Could Reduce Covid-19 Severity, Some Researchers Say 76
You Probably Won't Catch the Coronavirus From Frozen Food 83
AMC Movie Theaters Will Reopen On Aug. 20 With 15-Cent Tickets 118
Russia Claims To Have Registered World's First COVID-19 Vaccine 165
New Zealand Reinstates Coronavirus Restrictions After First Locally-Transmitted Case in 102 Days 229
People Typically Experience Shifting Mental Disorders Over Their Lifespan, Study Finds 130
AI Invents New 'Recipes' For Potential COVID-19 Drugs 28
Global Coronavirus Cases Hit 20 Million 170
New Zealand Marks 100 Days of No Covid-19 Community Spread 60
1.5% of All Americans Have Been Infected With Coronavirus - 5 Million Cases 379
Bill Gates Weighs In on US Pandemic Response, Encryption, and Grilling Tech Executives 86
Gates Foundation Teams Up With Vaccine Maker To Produce $3 Covid-19 Shots 102
Facebook Removes Trump Post For the First Time 291
US Reaches $1 Billion Deal For Doses of Potential Johnson & Johnson Vaccine 126
Anxious WHO Implores World To 'Do It All' in Long War on COVID-19 343
Pre-Clinical Test of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Shows It Protected Monkeys from Covid-19 60
A New Lyme Disease Vaccine Is Showing Promise 31
Lifestyle Changes Could Delay Or Prevent 40% of Dementia Cases, Study Says 48
COVID-19 Hospital Data Is a Hot Mess After Feds Take Control 174
Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promising Result In Animal Tests 103
Nancy Pelosi Mandates Masks On House Floor 247
Misleading Virus Video, Pushed By the Trumps, Spreads Online 566
Fastest US Supercomputer Enlisted in Fight Against Coronavirus 46
Scientists Are 3D Printing Miniature Human Organs To Test COVID-19 Drugs 21
Slashdot Interviews an Oxford Vaccine Trial Participant 80
People Think CPR is More Effective Than It Really Is, Study Finds 59
Coronavirus Infection Rates: 10 US States Higher Than Any Country in the World 355
Can You Get Covid-19 Again? It's Very Unlikely, Experts Say 55
America's Daily COVID-19 Death Toll Passes 1,000 Again 296
Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer Up To Four Years Before Symptoms Appear 80
Russian Elite Given Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Since April 80
COVID-19 Vaccines With 'Minor Side Effects' Could Still Be Pretty Bad 243
Your 'Doomscrolling' Breeds Anxiety. Health Experts Offer Ways To Stop the Cycle 74
Coronavirus Vaccine Developed By University of Oxford Appears Safe and Trains the Immune System, Trials Involving More Than 1000 People Showed 229
Full Text of US State Department Cables Finally Released, Showing Safety In Chinese Lab 220
Statisticians Warn That AI Is Still Not Ready To Diagnose COVID-19 38
Washington Post: Asymptomatic 'Superspreaders' May Be Propelling the Pandemic 299
Covid-19 Immunity From Antibodies May Last Only Months, New Study Suggests 218
Face Masks Offer More Protection from Coronavirus Than Many Think 356
CDC: Most COVID-19 Cases In New York City In March Traced To Europe 161
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Will Be Available By Dialing '988' In 2022 61
California Orders Online Schooling In Hardest-Hit Counties 65
Russian Hackers Are Linked To Sweeping Bid To Steal Vaccine Data 69
India Tops a Million Coronavirus Cases as Pandemic Hits Villages 114
White House Reportedly Orders Hospitals To Bypass CDC During COVID-19 Data Collection 189
Baby Was Infected With Coronavirus In Womb, Study Reports 6
A Volunteer Supercomputer Team is Hunting for Covid Clues 91
Cancer Patient Complains: My Facebook Feed Is Full of 'Alternative Care' Ads 207
Delays Reported For Possible Covid-Inoculating Plasma Shot 125
Right to Repair Advocates Accuse Medical Device Manufacturers of Profiteering 55
'Broken Heart Syndrome' Has Increased During COVID-19 Pandemic, Small Study Suggests 123
Warning of Serious Brain Disorders in People With Mild Coronavirus Symptoms 235
WHO To Review Evidence of Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus 252
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro Tests Positive for Covid-19 After Months of Dismissing the Seriousness of the Virus 206
China Confirms Case of Bubonic Plague In Inner Mongolia 78
Tesla to Make Molecule Printers for Gates-Backed Vaccine Developer 84
200 Scientists Say WHO Ignores the Risk That Coronavirus 'Aerosols' Float in the Air 250
The WHO Announces End of Its Testing of Hydroxychloroquine 80
Study Finds Hydroxychloroquine May Have Boosted Survival. Other Researchers Have Doubts 173
Moderate Drinking May Improve Cognitive Health for Older Adults, Study Says 129
Americans Lag Behind Other Countries -- and Pay More for Their Cellphone Service 144
WHO Sees First Results From COVID Drug Trials Within Two Weeks 82
US Secures World Stock of Key COVID-19 Drug Remdesivir 391
People Testing Negative For COVID-19 Antibodies May Still Have Some Immunity, Study Suggests 56
Dr. Anthony Fauci Says New Virus In China Has Traits of 2009 Swine Flu, 1918 Pandemic Flu 182
National Mask Mandate Could Save 5 Percent of GDP, Economists Say 481
China Approves COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate For Military Use 113
Flu Virus With 'Pandemic Potential' Found in China 241
A 'Cure for Heart Disease'? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys 94
New York Times Investigates How in America 'the Virus Won' 388
How Did the World Miss Covid-19's Silent Spread? 265
Sweden Tries Out a New Status: Pariah State 382
CA Governor Newsom Announces COVID-19 Modeling Website, Open-Source Tools For 'Citizen Scientists' 89
CDC: Coronavirus May Have Infected 10 Times More Americans Than Known 510
Fauci 'Cautiously Optimistic' Vaccine Could Be Available by End of 2020 or Early 2021 165

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