Lab supply shortages add new challenges to coronavirus testing
WASHINGTON (AP) — First, some of the coronavirus tests didn’t work. Then there weren’t enough to go around. Now, just as the federal government tries to ramp up nationwide screening, laboratory workers are warning of a new roadblock: dire shortages…
Nobel Medicine prize awarded to 3 scientists for learning how cells use oxygen
The prize winners' work has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases.
How nine days underwater helps scientists understand what life on a Moon base will be like
How is NASA preparing astronauts for high-stress living on the moon? Turns out the answer is by living in undersea bases just off the coast of Florida in a lab known as Aquarius Reef Base.
U.S. finds contaminant in popular heartburn drug
For now, the Food and Drug Administration said patients can continue taking Zantac and related generic drugs.
The people in MASH units worked long hours and endured horrific stresses of warfare.
Many of the experiments surgeons performed in the 1950s brought us to our current understanding of the human heart, but "would not pass muster with any institutional review board today," Sandeep Jauhar writes.
"Heart: A History" is an exploration of our most vital organ and favored metaphor.
Gun violence, prolonged mental trauma for children and the ongoing opioid crisis were just a few of the major health stories that captured national attention this year.
Researchers now think they’re on the path to universal flu protection. The source of their new defense: llamas.
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