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The latest developments affecting patients and practitioners

Generational protection
Health

As Covid-19 tears through Navajo Nation, young people step up to protect their elders

By Mona Gable

Haydon home
Health

He experienced a severe reaction to Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate. He’s still a believer

By Matthew Herper

remdesivir antiviral drug
Health

Covid-19 study details benefits of treatment with remdesivir, and also its limitations

By Matthew Herper

Adenovirus
Health

Early study of Covid-19 vaccine developed in China sees mixed results

By Helen Branswell

Hydroxychloroquine on tray
Health

What a big new study on malaria drugs as Covid-19 treatments tells us — and what it doesn’t

By Matthew Herper

Global Health Vaccines
Health

WHO warns millions of children at risk as Covid-19 pandemic disrupts routine vaccinations

By Andrew Joseph

Vaccine efficacy illo
Health

The world needs Covid-19 vaccines. It may also be overestimating their power

By Helen Branswell

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First Opinion

Recovery from Covid-19 is filled with uncertainty. An antibody test offered me a little comfort

By Alexander Spinelli

RNA (green)
In the Lab

‘It’s something I have never seen’: How the Covid-19 virus hijacks cells

By Sharon Begley

Electronic medical record
Health

FDA, partnering with New York health tech firm, seeks to collect ‘real-world’ data on Covid-19

By Matthew Herper

kirkland window
Health

As Covid-19 lockdowns are lifted, uncertainty at nursing homes only deepens

By Shafaq Zia

glass vials/conveyor belt
Exclusive

Gilead ups its donation of the Covid-19 drug remdesivir for U.S. hospitals

By Eric Boodman

MODERNA - Norwood facility
Health

Early data show Moderna Covid-19 vaccine generates immune response

By Helen Branswell

black telephone
Health

Life as a Covid-19 contact tracer: sleuthing, stress, and veering off-script

By Suzanne Sataline

Utah public health center
Health

Utah went all-in on an unproven Covid-19 treatment, then scrambled to course-correct

By Andrew Joseph

BTF
Politics

Trump administration outlines audacious plan to deliver ‘hundreds of millions’ of Covid-19 vaccine doses by end of 2020

By Lev Facher

Miss. nasal swab
Health

FDA says Abbott’s 5-minute Covid-19 test may miss infected patients

By Matthew Herper

LOS ANGELES american flag
Health

Under an ‘America First’ president, will the U.S. corner the market on Covid-19 vaccine?

By Helen Branswell

Lopez
Health

Ethics questions swirl around historic Parkinson’s experiment

By Sharon Begley

Intense cat
Health

Cats can catch Covid-19 from other cats, study finds. The question is: Can we?

By Helen Branswell

David, Helen, Rick
Health

Covid-19 experts lament dismissal of early warnings and disease’s impact on communities of color

By Shraddha Chakradhar

23andMe 5/12
Health

23andMe study to recruit sickest Covid-19 patients in bid to unravel role of genetics in disease

By Rebecca Robbins

Play
Health

Watch: Testing failures have plagued the U.S. response to Covid-19. How did we get here?

By STAT staff

Health

Digital event: Confronting a Pandemic — Part 2

By Erin Brodwin

MGH entrance
Health

With little data, doctors struggle to decide which Covid-19 patients should get remdesivir

By Eric Boodman and Casey Ross

Buprenorphine as Methadone Alternative
Health

Covid-19 has streamlined addiction medicine. Will the changes stick?

By Lev Facher

Parkinson's cell transplant
Exclusive

A secret experiment revealed: In a medical first, doctors treat Parkinson’s with a novel brain cell transplant

By Sharon Begley

NY phlebotomist
Exclusive

Inside the NIH’s controversial decision to stop its big remdesivir study

By Matthew Herper

remdesivir antiviral drug
Health

Trump administration announces plan to distribute Covid-19 drug amid concerns over allocation

By Lev Facher

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