Scientists including a prominent University of Maryland virologist plan to test an old polio vaccine that they believe could provide temporary protection from COVID-19 as labs around the world work on specific coronavirus vaccines. The effort to find a coronavirus vaccine has moved at an unprecedented pace. But no vaccine is expected until some time…
A form of the novel coronavirus which has become the dominant type in much of the world may have done so thanks to a mutation that allows it to better latch onto human hosts’ cells, new research indicates. Lab tests performed by US-based Scripps Research, in a study which has not yet been peer-reviewed, showed…
The eating regimen called “intermittent fasting” first caught my attention last year when my friend Reid Freeman, 61, who runs a factory in Lexington, Ky., told me he’d been using it to lose weight. He hoped weight loss would help with his obstructive sleep apnea, which is associated with an increased risk of heart attack,…
With cheap at-home Covid-19 antigen tests in the works, a number of antibody tests quickly gaining approval for emergency use and Americans thinking about going back to work, you might be wondering if it's time to get tested? The answer is complicated.Testing, both for the Covid-19 virus and its antibodies, doesn't replace the need for other…
CLOSE Of the confirmed two million coronavirus cases, more than 113,000 Americans have died since the virus emerged here a few months ago. USA TODAYIt’s been six months since doctors first discovered the coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19.Since then, the virus has sickened millions of people worldwide, shuttering businesses and tanking economies with no…
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…