A “drug repurposing” strategy uncovers dozens of compounds that have the unexpected potential to combat the virus.A scanning electron micrograph of a dying cell infected with coronavirus particles, in orange.Credit...National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesApril 30, 2020Updated 10:08 a.m. ETIn the early 1950s, psychiatrists began treating schizophrenia with a new drug called chlorpromazine. Seven…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…