A study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that wearing two face coverings can nearly double the effectiveness of filtering out SARS-CoV-2-sized particles, preventing
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Results from phase 3 trial show baricitinib reduces deaths from COVID-19
The latest results from a study to assess the efficacy of the arthritis drug, baricitinib, in treating COVID-19 patients have shown that the treatment reduced
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International study reveals gut bacteria from people in industrialized societies swap genes at much higher rates
Thousands of different bacterial species live within the human gut. Most are beneficial, while others can be harmful. A new study from an MIT-led team
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This Is How Your Butt Can Tell a Poop From a Fart, According to Science
It’s the kind of call you never want to have to make; discerning whether that pressure you’re feeling is the need to pass gas, or
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Therapy sneaks into hard layer of pancreatic cancer tumor and destroys it from within
Every 12 minutes, someone in the United States dies of pancreatic cancer, which is often diagnosed late, spreads rapidly and has a five-year survival rate
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Kidney-on-a-chip offers clues to prevent kidney damage from essential drugs
There are 1.5 million cases of drug-induced kidney toxicity each year in the U.S. Among the usual suspects are cyclosporin and cisplatin, a pair of
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SARS-COV-2 virus isolated from air within a car
Researchers at the University of Florida collected the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 from the air within a car driven for 15 minutes by a
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From melody to language: Speech development in babies
In the first few months of their lives, babies cry, babble, gurgle and make a variety of other peculiar sounds. It can be difficult to
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Scientists use knowledge from climate system modeling to develop global prediction system for COVID-19 pandemic
At the time of writing, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is seriously threatening human lives and health throughout the world. Before effective vaccines and specific drugs
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Comparing Death Tolls From Covid to Past Wars Is Fraught
Counting the dead is one of the first, somber steps in reckoning with an event of enormous tragic scope, be it war, a natural disaster
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