Medicine Stories for 2021

US Hits Record Number of New Covid-19 Cases 353
South Africa Study Suggests Omicron Could Displace Delta 100
CDC Cuts Isolation Time For COVID-19 Infections From 10 Days To 5 110
Denmark Sees Initial Signs That Dire Omicron Surge Can Be Avoided 149
FDA Authorizes Second COVID-19 Antiviral Pill 64
US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID, SARS Variants 248
Intel Tells Unvaccinated Employees They Face Unpaid Leave 227
FDA Authorizes First Pill To Treat Covid-19 128
A Bluetooth Bug In a Popular At-Home COVID-19 Test Could Falsify Results 39
Covid Vaccines Fight Serious Illness, But Only Pfizer and Moderna With a Booster Stop Omicron Infections 328
Hospital's Computer System Always Marks Up Costs Automatically, Leaked Records Show 224
Anti-5G Necklaces Found To Be Radioactive 80
'No Evidence' That Omicron is Less Severe Than Delta, Say Imperial Researchers 348
CDC Panel Recommends Moderna, Pfizer Vaccines Over J&J's 139
Fossil Fuel Combustion Kills More Than 1 Million People Every Year, Study Says 151
UK Reports Highest Number of Daily Covid Cases Since the Pandemic Began 180
First UK Death Recorded With Omicron Variant 179
South Korea To Test AI-Powered Facial Recognition To Track COVID-19 Cases 12
New Medicine Could Replace Reading Glasses with Eye Drops 87
COVID Booster Cuts Death Rate by 90%, Israeli Study Finds 154
FDA Clears AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Antibody Treatment For Immunocompromised 13
Over 40 Million People Had Health Information Leaked This Year 25
Can an Athlete's Blood Enhance Brainpower? 56
Suicide Pods Now Legal In Switzerland, Providing Users With a Painless Death 363
Pfizer, BioNTech Say Third Dose Neutralizes Omicron Variant 292
Study Can't Confirm Lab Results For Many Cancer Experiments 126
The NIH Director On Why Americans Aren't Getting Healthier, Despite Medical Advances 208
Giant Study Finds Viagra Is Linked To Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's 115
Meta Has a 'Moral Obligation' To Make Its Mental Health Research Transparent, Scientists Say 46
Booster Doses are Powerful, May Fight Omicron, Researchers Find 399
Israel Halts Disputed Omicron Tracing Through Phone Surveillance 9
Fake Covid-19 Vaccine Certificates Are Being Advertised On the Dark Web 207
Australia Is the Drunkest Country In the World, Survey Finds 108
New York Anime Convention Possibly Infected With Omicron 170
Many Severe Covid-19 Survivors Die Within a Year, Study Finds 338
Trigger of Rare Blood Clots In AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Found 191
US Confirms Nation's First Case of Omicron Covid Variant In California 116
Princeton Team Disables Long-Targeted Gene Behind Spread of Major Cancers 55
Moderna CEO Says Vaccines Likely Less Effective Against Omicron 311
Israel Authorizes Use of Phone Tracking Tech To Contain Spread of Omicron Covid Variant 70
A Stem-Cell Cure For Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems To Have Worked 48
Booster Shots Create a 23X Increase in Protective Antibody Levels, Study Suggests 375
Top Vaccine Makers Already Preparing to Fight Omicron Coronavirus Variant 165
Biden Admin Announces Travel Ban for South Africa and 7 Other Countries, Citing New Variant 258
South Africa Raises Alarm Over New Coronavirus Variant 244
Germany Considers a Full Covid Lockdown and Mandatory Vaccines 388
US To Require Vaccines For All Border Crossers In January 241
Cancer Cells Use 'Tiny Tentacles' To Suck Mitochondria Out of Immune Cells 63
A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes 58
UPDATE: Broad 329,000-Page Document Request Led to FDA's 2076 'Scheduling Dispute' 443
CDC Panel Unanimously Endorses Pfizer and Moderna Covid Boosters For All US Adults 168
Adults Who Microdose Psychedelics Report Health-related Motivations and Lower Levels of Anxiety and Depression, Paper Finds 108
VR Treatment For Chronic Pain Gets FDA Authorization 20
New Class of Drug Reverses Paralysis In Mice 66
Fatty Acid Found In Palm Oil Linked To Spread of Cancer 93
Unsealed Emails Show How J&J Shaped Report On Talc's Links To Cancer 88
FDA Approves First Psilocin Clinical Trial 36
Europe Once Again at Centre of Covid Pandemic, Says WHO 114
Pfizer Says COVID Pill Cuts Risk of Death or Hospitalization by 89%, Citing Interim Results 112
COVID-19 Virus Does Not Infect Human Brain Cells, Study Suggests 65
Alphabet Launches AI Company To Discover New Drugs 17
Here's Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard To Find 75
First Pill To Treat Covid Gets Approval in UK 92
Vaccination Offers Better Protection Than Previous COVID-19 Infection 368
MRI and Ultrasound Can Sneak Cancer Drugs Into the Brain 16
Global Covid Cases and Deaths Rise for the First Time in Two Months, WHO Says 184
Cheap Antidepressant Shows Promise Treating Early COVID-19 218
Immunocompromised May Need a Fourth COVID-19 Shot, CDC Says 207
UK Reaches Highest COVID-19 Deaths Since March As New AY.4.2 Delta Sub-Variant Spreads 403
Amazon Brings Alexa To Hospitals and Senior Living Centers 51
India Crosses the Milestone of 1 Billion COVID-19 Vaccinations 41
VR Treatment For Lazy Eye In Children Gets FDA Approval 11
WHO Asks South African Startup To Replicate Moderna's mRNA Vaccine 63
FDA Approves Mixing COVID Vaccines 303
US Surgeons Successfully Test Pig Kidney Transplant In Human Patient 66
Doctors Blame TikTok For Surge In Teen Girls Experiencing Tics 60
Homeopathy Doesn't Work. So Why Do So Many Germans Believe in It? 221
The FDA Wants You To Be Able To Buy a Hearing Aid Without a Prescription 76
Drones Have Now Been Used To Deliver Lungs For Medical Transplant 22
Chemicals Used In Packaging May Play Role In 100,000 US Deaths a Year 113
Acer Launches Bacteria-Resistant PCs 69
Aspirin Use To Prevent 1st Heart Attack or Stroke Should Be Curtailed, US Panel Says 87
Neuroscientists Claim To Have Pinpointed the Brain States Unique To 'Team Flow' 49
WSU Will Lead $125 Million Global Project To Find, Analyze Animal Viruses 34
A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About To Become a Very Big Business 141
China PCR Purchases Spiked In Months Before First Known Covid Cases, Firm Says 219
A Surgically Implanted Brain Stimulation Device Could Help Treat Severe Depression 90
The Medicine Nobel Prize Honors the Discovery of Temperature and Touch Receptors 17
Is the Coronavirus Just Getting Better at Airborne Transmission? 203
More Vaccinations, Less Pushback: America's Vaccine Mandates Are Working, Says Public Health Professor 308
Meet Molnupiravir, Merck's Pill That Cuts COVID-19 Hospitalization and Death By About Half 181
California Becomes First State To Require Covid-19 Vaccination For Students 232
YouTube Will Remove Videos With Misinformation About Any Vaccine 549
Apple Watch Can Detect Arrhythmias Other Than AFib, Study Shows 22
Americans Ramp Up Google Searches for Covid Tests Amid Scarcity 50
Scientists Use AI To Create Drug Regime For Rare Form of Brain Cancer In Children 21
CDC Panel Endorses Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Shots For People 65 and Older 84
FDA Authorizes Pfizer Booster Shots For Older and At-Risk Americans 85
CIA Director 'Fuming' After Havana Syndrome Strikes Team Member In India 108
Apple is Working on Mental Health Monitoring Using iPhone Data 39
Kids 5-11 Appear Safely Protected By Small Doses of COVID Vaccine, Pfizer Says 156
US COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses That of 1918 Pandemic 228
At Least 20 Americans Have Been Hospitalized for Ivermectin Overdoses This Year 335
Merck Ivermectin Researcher Proud of Its Success - For Treating River Blindness 66
FDA Approves Human Clinical Trials of a Possible CRISPR-Based HIV Cure 44
FDA Panel Rejects Plan To Administer Pfizer's COVID-19 Booster Doses To General Public 151
Indian Researchers Create a Raspberry-Pi-Based Device To Monitor Health 47
Millions With Eye Conditions at Higher Risk of Dementia, Shows Research 38
Engineers Grow Pancreatic 'Organoids' That Mimic the Real Thing 8
New Studies Find Evidence Of 'Superhuman' Immunity To COVID-19 In Some Individuals 149
High Ivermectin Overdosages Caused 1,143 Calls to America's Poison Control Centers This Year 440
Largest Study of Its Kind Finds Face Masks Reduce COVID-19 232
India's DNA COVID Vaccine is a World First -- More Are Coming 167
Where Did Ivermectin Come From and Why Are Americans Taking It To Try and Treat COVID-19? 676
Reddit's Teach-the-Controversy Stance On COVID Vaccines Sparks Wider Protest 582
Rugby: Head Impact Study Shows Cognitive Decline After Just One Season 47
Five Decades Later, Medicare Might Cover Dental Care 158
Elizabeth Holmes Might Accuse Ex-Boyfriend/Former Theranos Executive of Psychological Abuse 116
Reducing Sugar In Packaged Foods Can Prevent Disease In Millions, Study Finds 229
Calls Grow to Discipline Doctors Spreading Virus Misinformation Online 450
Previous Covid Prevents Delta Infection Better Than Pfizer Shot 311
US Intelligence Agencies Split On COVID-19 Origins, Offer No High-Confidence Conclusions In New Report 228
US Plans COVID-19 Booster Shots At Six Months Instead of Eight 231
First US COVID Deaths Came Earlier Than Previously Thought 128
Pfizer, BioNTech Vaccine Gets Full Approval From US Regulators 407
Are Our Smartphones Making Us Dopamine Addicts? 78
US Health Insurers Caught Negotiating Worse Rates Than For Those With No Insurance 240
Moderna Will Start Its First Human Trials of an mRNA Vaccine for HIV 152
New Report Suggests a Different Chinese Government Cover-Up on Covid-19 Origins 123
India Approves World's First DNA Covid Vaccine 136
Why Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don't Help and May Make Things Worse 221
COVID-19 Vaccines May Trigger Superimmunity In People Who Had SARS Long Ago 133
US To Recommend COVID Vaccine Boosters at 8 Months 329
Study Finds Fermented Foods May Alter Your Microbiome, Reduce Inflammation, and Improve Your Health 118
'No Effect Whatsoever' Found for Ivermectin in Major Study 296
San Francisco Becomes First Major US City To Mandate Proof of Full Vaccinations For Certain Indoor Activities 286
WHO Expert 'Had Concerns' About Lab Close To 1st COVID Cases 166
Kidney Transplant Patients Will Test a COVID-19 Booster Shot in New Trial 34
AI Algorithms Uncannily Good At Spotting Your Race From Medical Scans 144
The Lucrative Business of Spreading Vaccine Misinformation is Being Crowdfunded 155
Russia May Be Spreading Vaccine Misinformation to Undermine Efforts to Immunize People 277
Moderna Recommends Covid-19 Vaccine Booster To Protect Against New Variants 189
US Intel Agencies Are Reviewing Genetic Data From Wuhan Lab 145
NYC Will Require Vaccines For Entry To Restaurants and Gyms; Requirement Can Be Met With An App 492
A Magnetic Helmet Shrunk a Deadly Tumor In World-First Test 157
To Fight Vaccine Misinformation, US Recruits an 'Influencer Army' 314
Hundreds of AI Tools Were Built to Catch Covid. None of Them Helped 108
YouTube Bans Sky News Australia for One Week Over Misinformation 288
UK Pharmaceutical Firm Fined For Hiking Drug Price 6,000% 182
Early Virus Sequences 'Mysteriously' Deleted Have Been Not-So-Mysteriously Undeleted 128
Virtual Contact Worse Than No Contact For Over-60s In Lockdown, Says Study 77
'The War Has Changed': Internal CDC Document Urges New Messaging, Warns Delta Infections Likely More Severe 422
IBM's AI Can Predict How Parkinson's Disease May Progress In Individuals 7
The European Union Pulls Ahead of the United States In Vaccinations 192
Pfizer Vaccine Effectiveness Drops To 84 Percent After Six Months, Study Finds 301
Pfizer Data Suggest Third Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine 'Strongly' Boosts Protection Against Delta Variant 176
CDC: Vaccinated People in COVID Hotspots Should Resume Wearing Masks 600
Fauci Wants To Make Vaccines for the Next Pandemic Before It Hits 267
Three Die After Untreatable 'Superbug' Fungus Infections in Two Different Cities 95
Maker of Dubious $56K Alzheimer's Drug Offers Cognitive Test No One Can Pass 56
Most Unvaccinated Americans Don't Want Shots: AP-NORC Poll 657
39-Year-Old Becomes First US Patient To Receive 'Aeson' Artificial Heart Implant 25
Influential Ivermectin Study Accused of 'Totally Faked' Data 217
About 24 US Govt Officials in Vienna, Austria Report 'Havana Syndrome' Symptoms 82
US Seeing 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated' As Cases Rise In Every State 417
WHO Warns of 'Chaos' if Individuals Mix Covid Vaccines 195
Brain Signals Converted Into Words 'Speak' For Person With Paralysis 24
White House May Work With Carriers To Screen Anti-Vax Messages 267
Molecules Produced By Gut Bacteria Could Help the Human Body Fight Cancer 21
Foxconn and TSMC Strike Deal To Buy 10 Million COVID-19 Vaccines For Taiwan 47
Death Rates Are Declining For Many Common Cancers In US 49
Moderna Starts Human Trials of An mRNA-Based Flu Shot 81
Fitbits Detect Lasting Changes After Covid-19 158
UK Supercomputer Cambridge-1 To Hunt For Medical Breakthroughs 23
HIV Vaccine Trial Starts at Oxford 124
COVID Vaccines To Reach Poorest Countries in 2023 -- Despite Recent Pledges 164
When a 'Wildly Irrational' Algorithm Makes Crucial Healthcare Decisions 38
As Delta Variant Surges, Outbreaks Return in Many Parts of the World 363
Scientists Develop Wireless Pacemaker That Dissolves In Body 17
Mixing Covid Vaccines Gives Good Protection, Study Suggests 49
On the Deaths of Two Unvaccinated Florida IT Workers 339
Report from Israel: About Half of Adults Infected With Covid-19 Delta Variant Were Fully Inoculated 212
A Coronavirus Epidemic Hit 20,000 Years Ago, New Study Finds 56
Ivermectin To Be Studied As Possible COVID-19 Treatment In UK 86
Blood Test That Finds 50 Types of Cancer Is Accurate Enough To Be Rolled Out 32
Recent US COVID-19 Deaths Have Been Largely Among the Unvaccinated, Says New Analysis 266
Heart Problems After Vaccination Are Very Rare, Federal Researchers Say 176
Scientist Finds Early Virus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted 336
DeepMind Uses AI To Tackle Neglected Deadly Diseases 6
Morgan Stanley's New York Office Bans Unvaccinated Staff and Clients 218
A Hospital Algorithm Designed To Predict a Deadly Condition Misses Most Cases 53
Drinking Coffee May Cut Risk of Chronic Liver Disease, Study Suggests 74
WHO Says Delta is the Fastest and Fittest Covid Variant and Will 'Pick Off' Most Vulnerable 305
mRNA Companies are Now Testing Cancer-Fighting Vaccines 79
A Pill To Treat Covid-19? The US Is Betting on It 203
California Offers Digital Record of Coronavirus Vaccination 167
Apple Struggles in Push To Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy 50
Pakistan Province May Block SIM Cards of Citizens Who Didn't Get Covid-19 Vaccines 70
Linus Torvalds Tells Anti-Vaxxer To Shut Up On Linux Mailing List 603
Third Member of US FDA Advisory Panel Resigns Over Alzheimer's Drug Approval 61
Laughing Gas Can Help Treat Depression, Small Study Finds 90
CDC To Meet On Rare Heart Inflammation Following COVID Vaccine 114
'Miraculous' Mosquito Hack Cuts Dengue By 77% 67
Biden Administration To Buy 500 Million Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine Doses To Donate To the World 227
China is Vaccinating a Staggering 20 Million People a Day 210
A New Type Of COVID-19 Vaccine Could Debut Soon 148
Apple's MagSafe Devices May Affect Pacemakers 15
Proven Against Coronavirus, mRNA Can Do So Much More 108
How Amazon Became an Engine For Anti-Vaccine Misinformation 191
'TikTok Detected My ADHD Before I Did' 94
Florida's Government May Have Ignored and Withheld Data About Covid-19 Cases 269
German Scientists Identify Possible Cause of Vaccine Blood Clots 95
Immunity To the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find 111
Half of All US Adults Are Now Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 328
India Asks Social Media Firms To Remove References To 'Indian Variant' of Covid 198
Human Tissue Preserved Since World War I Yields New Clues About 1918 Pandemic 42
The White House Is Partnering With Dating Apps To Get Horny People Vaccinated 107
Researchers Build Tiny Wireless, Injectable Chips, Visible Only Under a Microscope 139
Report: 65% of Social Media Anti-vax Propaganda Comes From Just 12 People 297
Neural Implant Lets Paralyzed Person Type By Imagining Writing 25
MDMA Passes a Big Test For PTSD Treatment 114
FDA Clears Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine For Kids Ages 12 To 15 79
New Study Again Finds Mediterranean Diet Lowers Symptoms of Brain Aging 56
New Studies Show Covid-19 Vaccines' Effectiveness Against Variants 155
Sinopharm: Chinese Covid Vaccine Gets WHO Emergency Approval 128
The Coronavirus Is an Airborne Threat, the CDC Acknowledges In Updated Public Guidance 120
A New Covid Vaccine Could Bring Hope To the Unvaccinated World 52
Biden Backs Waiving International Patent Protections For COVID-19 Vaccines 189
Oxford Study Finds No Link Between Technology Use and Mental-Health Problems 45
Apple Watch Likely to Gain Blood Pressure, Blood Glucose, and Blood Alcohol Monitoring 53
Early Signs of Dementia Can Be Detected By Tracking Driving Behaviors 93
How Big Data Are Unlocking the Mysteries of Autism 68
Brazil Rejects Sputnik V Vaccine, Says It's Tainted With Replicating Cold Virus 110
Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide During the COVID Pandemic 307
Anti-Vaxxer Hijacks QR Codes At COVID-19 Check-In Sites 117
High-Bandwidth Wireless BCI Demonstrated In Humans For First Time 60
Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Are 94% Effective Against COVID-19 Hospitalization In Older Adults, Says CDC 60
CDC Says Vaccinated Americans Don't Need a Mask Outdoors in Small Groups 282
Millions Are Skipping Their Second Doses of Covid Vaccines 247
Biden Admin Will Share Millions of AstraZeneca Vaccine Doses Worldwide 149
Children from Parents Exposed to Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Show No Genetic Damage 80
The Most Effective Malaria Vaccine Yet Discovered 30
CDC Panel Recommends Using J&J COVID-19 Vaccine Without Restrictions, Saying Benefits Outweigh Risks 105
Pfizer CEO Says Third Covid Vaccine Dose Likely Needed Within 12 Months 408
99.992% of Fully Vaccinated People Have Dodged COVID, CDC Data Shows 143
Respiratory Study Launches To Discover How Apple Watch Can Predict COVID-19 6
How a Researcher 'Clinging To the Fringes of Academia' Helped Develop a Covid-19 Vaccine 64
NBA Partners With Biometric Screening Company To Allow Full Capacity Arenas Next Season 68
With Virus Origins Still Obscure, WHO and Critics Look To Next Steps 227
Florida Governor Issues Executive Order Prohibiting COVID-19 Vaccine Passports 368

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