Women produce a more powerful immune response than do men, a new study finds.In a hospital in La Mesa, Calif., earlier this year, a nurse held a phone to the ear of a patient with coronavirus so he could listen to his daughter speak. Credit...Etienne Laurent/EPA, via ShutterstockAug. 26, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ETThe coronavirus may infect…
Bald men appear to be at higher risk of suffering severe coronavirus symptoms — a risk factor being named after the Big Apple man who was the first U.S. doctor to die of the contagion, according to a new report.“We really think that baldness is a perfect predictor of severity,” Professor Carlos Wambier of Brown…
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…