As a sociologist and feminist researcher, Dr. Alice Beban is interested in the everyday inequalities in women’s lives and has
Month: March 2021
Open spaces, no pharmacies: rural US confronts vaccine void
When Charlome Pierce searched where her 96-year-old father could get a COVID-19 vaccine in January, she found zero options anywhere
Rapid Covid tests sell out in Germany on first day
Germans flocked to supermarket chain Aldi on Saturday to snap up the first rapid coronavirus tests to go on sale
Resistance to Guinea Ebola response remains high: Red Cross
As Guinea grapples with a fresh Ebola outbreak, community resistance to measures needed to rein in the deadly virus remains
France extends weekend lockdown to northern region
Hundreds of thousands of people in northern France went back into lockdown Saturday, while health officials stepped up a nationwide
Chinese urgency on COVID-19 goes missing in jabs drive
Shirley Shi has received three offers to be vaccinated against COVID-19—through her hometown, her Beijing residential area and her office
Oral Covid treatment yields promising trial data: drugmakers
German pharmaceutical giant Merck and a US partner reported promising results Saturday in trials of a drug administered orally to
A call to action to address racial inequities in medical tests
A new perspective article published in CJASN examines how the use of race in calculating kidney function, as well as other aspects
Rapid 3D printing method moves toward 3D-printed organs
It looks like science fiction: A machine dips into a shallow vat of translucent yellow goo and pulls out what
Study finds mask mandates, dining out influence virus spread
A new national study adds strong evidence that mask mandates can slow the spread of the coronavirus, and that allowing
