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Health By Andrew Joseph

‘A huge experiment’: How the world made so much progress on a Covid-19 vaccine so fast

The coronavirus is an easier target for potential vaccines than other pathogens, and a prime candidate for new cutting-edge vaccine platforms.

Maria Van Kerkhove

Health By Andrew Joseph

‘We don’t actually have that answer yet’: WHO clarifies comments on asymptomatic spread of Covid-19

Health By STAT

The Covid-19 Tracker

ECMO

Health By Ron Winslow

How a Zoom forum is changing the way ICU doctors treat desperately ill Covid-19 patients

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Health By Kate Sheridan

This California company has a better version of a simpler, faster Covid-19 test

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Azan Virji & Ziad Saade

Health By Shraddha Chakradhar

Getting into U.S. medical schools wasn’t easy for them. Now international students are smoothing the path for others

eTrueNorth cv19 testing site

Health By Kate Sheridan

This tiny Texas company is running most of the drive-thru Covid-19 testing in the U.S.

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NIH headquarters

Health By Kate Sheridan

Ginkgo Bioworks, Mammoth Biosciences among winners of NIH’s ‘Shark Tank’ for Covid-19 tests

Sanofi

Pharma By Matthew Herper

Sanofi and GSK land $2.1 billion deal with U.S. for Covid-19 vaccine development and 100 million doses

JDRF LA Chapter 2018 Imagine Gala

Health By Rebecca Robbins

Medical nonprofits are hard-hit as the pandemic upends crucial fundraising

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Health By Eric Boodman

School closures in spring linked to drastic decrease in Covid-19 cases and deaths

Broken Handcuffs

Health By Juliet Isselbacher

As mobile mental health teams work to de-escalate crises, some warn their models still rely on police partnerships

Soon Shiong Collage

Special Report By Rebecca Robbins and Adam Feuerstein

Harry Reid and Alex Trebek tried Patrick Soon-Shiong’s experimental cancer therapy. Can their results be duplicated in a clinical trial?

Alzheimer Blood Test

Health By Associated Press

Scientists get closer to blood test for Alzheimer’s disease

Suzan DelBene 2017

Health By Andrew Joseph

The first U.S. Covid-19 case was found in her district. A congresswoman reflects on the last six months

Pharma By Matthew Herper and Damian Garde

Pfizer and BioNTech pick Covid-19 vaccine and begin pivotal study

Anatomical heart

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Covid-19 infections leave an impact on the heart, raising concerns about lasting damage

Male AP Supine AI artificial intelligence

Health Tech By Casey Ross

As Covid-19 surges, researchers amass lung scans to build AI systems for patient care

Vials

Health By Helen Branswell

Covid-19 vaccines may cause mild side effects, experts say, stressing need for education, not alarm

naloxone in hand

Health By Lev Facher

FDA says opioid labels must include information about naloxone

c19 clinical trial

Health By Matthew Herper

NIH to start ‘flurry’ of large studies of potential Covid-19 treatments

Texas surge ICU

Health By Helen Branswell

Confusion spreads over system to determine priority access to Covid-19 vaccines

Tom Frieden - Covid19

Health By Helen Branswell

Public health group calls for standardized data collection to more clearly track Covid-19

COVID-19 blood test NY

Health By Andrew Joseph

Actual Covid-19 case count could be 6 to 24 times higher than official estimates, CDC study shows

dermatology textbook

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

Dermatology faces a reckoning: Lack of darker skin in textbooks and journals harms care for patients of color

Human stem cell, Cryo SEM

Health By Andrew Joseph

FDA extends deadline for stem cell clinics to comply with drug development rules

Copenhagen University research lab vaccine

Health By Matthew Herper, Damian Garde, and Helen Branswell

Studies provide glimpse at efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and CanSino

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Health By Damian Garde and Helen Branswell

6 burning questions Congress could push Covid-19 vaccine makers to answer today

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Health By Sharon Begley

Trump said more Covid-19 testing ‘creates more cases.’ We did the math