A study published in JAMA Network Open shows that there was no maternal viremia, placental infection, or vertical transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in a cohort of pregnant women with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In addition, compromised transplacental transfer of…
Global travel opens new roads for outbreaks, like coronavirus and the flu—but which is more dangerous, and how can you stay safe? WHEN AN OUTBREAK strikes, it is natural to become leery of hopping on an airplane. It is even more alarming when…
A fringe theory links microbes in the brain with the onset of dementia. Now, researchers are taking it seriously. Two years ago, immunologist and medical-publishing entrepreneur Leslie Norins offered to award US$1 million of his own money to any scientist who could…
The vaccine, designed to prevent harmful mutations, is seen as key to eradicating polio. A vaccine against a type of polio that is spreading in the Southern Hemisphere is expected to receive emergency approval before the end of the year. If it…
Advisory groups around the world release guidance to prioritize health-care workers and those in front-line jobs. Whether it takes weeks, as US President Donald Trump has hinted, or months, as most health-care experts expect, an approved vaccine against the coronavirus is coming,…
The vaccine, designed to prevent harmful mutations, is seen as key to eradicating polio. A vaccine against a type of polio that is spreading in the Southern Hemisphere is expected to receive emergency approval before the end of the year. If it…
Researchers are struggling to tally mortality statistics as the pandemic rages. Here’s how they gauge the true toll of the coronavirus outbreak. At the beginning of March, Andrew Noymer felt a familiar twinge of doubt. He was watching countries across Europe and…
A physician and researcher in China for the Covid-19 pandemic, Ewelina Biskup, MD, MPH, discusses that experience, and calls for a big data collection and analysis effort to address the many unanswered questions about the virus.By Ewelina Biskup, MD, MPH & Edward Prewitt, MPP Vol….
Abstract In less than six months, COVID‐19 has spread from a marketplace in Wuhan, China to over 150 countries and territories of the world. Therapeutics are desperately needed to reduce the morbidity and mortality of this pandemic disease. It has been reported…
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization designated COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, an international pandemic. By April 6, the disease had infected over a million people around the world. More than 70,000 have died. Treatments and…
