Health Dec 28 Bird flu virus likely mutated within Louisiana patient who became severely ill, CDC says A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe case of the illness, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week.
Politics Aug 21 Tim Walz has described his family’s IVF experience. But they used a different procedure He has implied that he and his wife used IVF to conceive, drawing a connection between their experience and efforts to limit the procedure. However, they actually used IUI, a different process that has attracted less controversy.
Health May 14 8,000 women a month got abortion pills despite their states’ bans or restrictions, survey finds The abortion-rights group Society for Family Planning issued its #WeCount survey Tuesday showing providers in states with laws that seek to protect them from prosecution by other states were writing prescriptions that covered about 1 in 10 abortions nationally.
Health Feb 13 More patients rely on early prenatal testing as states toughen abortion laws Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, many health care providers say an increasing number of patients are deciding the fate of their pregnancies on whatever information they can gather before state abortion bans kick in.
Science Jan 30 Elon Musk says the first human has received an implant from Neuralink, but details are scant In a Monday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was recovering well. The billionaire did not provide additional details about the patient.
Health Jan 02 Threats to medication abortion access drive U.S. women to stockpile pills Nationally, the average number of daily requests shot up nearly tenfold, from about 25 in the eight months before the leak to 247 after the leak.
Health Dec 08 Gene therapies for sickle cell disease approved in U.S. Regulators on Friday approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the United States.
Health Oct 31 WATCH: Sickle cell gene therapy gets review from FDA advisory committee If approved, it would be the first gene therapy on the U.S. market based on CRISPR, the gene editing tool that won its inventors the Nobel Prize in 2020.
Science Sep 25 More research is examining how we carry the ‘genetic legacy’ of extinct human species Neanderthal genes have been linked with our immune systems and COVID-19 response, while Denisovan genes may help adapt to high altitudes.
Nation Sep 24 Weakened Ophelia poses flood risk in parts of Northeast as new storm brews in the Atlantic After being downgraded from a tropical storm, Ophelia on Sunday still threatened parts of the Northeast with coastal flooding, life-threatening waves and heavy rain from Washington to New York City, the National Hurricane Center said.