Firefighters who worked at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 attacks in 2001 are 13% more likely than colleagues
Month: September 2021
Experts propose policies for safer electronic health records
Developers of electronic health records (EHR) should create or modify their products to ensure that health care organizations can meet
Prostate cancer risk 24% higher among 9/11 rescue/recovery workers after World Trade Center attacks
The risk of prostate cancer was 24% higher among 9/11 rescue and recovery workers after the attacks on the World
FDA official hopeful younger kids can get shots this year
The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine chief said Friday the agency will rapidly evaluate COVID-19 vaccinations for younger children as
COVID vaccines hold up against severe Delta: US data
Fully vaccinated people were 11 times less likely to die of COVID and 10 times less likely to be hospitalized
Biden presses states to require vaccines for all teachers
Hoping to prevent another school year from being upended by the pandemic, President Joe Biden visited a Washington middle school
Disparities in opioid overdose deaths continue to worsen for Black people, study suggests
Non-Hispanic Black individuals in four U.S. states experienced a 38% increase in the rate of opioid overdose deaths from 2018
How serotonin curbs cocaine addiction
Contrary to common thinking, cocaine triggers an addiction in only 20 percent of consumers. But what happens in their brains
Impaired T cell function precedes loss of natural HIV control
HIV is a master of evading the immune system, using a variety of methods to prevent the body from being
International study reports the impact of genetics on epigenetic factors
Understanding what causes epigenetic variation could be a step closer thanks to a new atlas of genetic effects on epigenetic
