Distance learning makes it harder for kids to exercise, especially in low-income communities
With many schools closed, children's health could suffer.
Oct. 15, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: covid-19 coronavirus school exercise pandemic health-disparities childrens-health physical-education
Breakthrough blood test developed for brain tumors
Researchers have developed a liquid biopsy that can more accurately detect the most common type of adult brain tumors.
Oct. 14, 2020 • ~4 min
Tags: health-medicine
3 factors shed light on COVID-19 oxygen level mystery
Researchers have begun to solve the mystery of how COVID-19 causes "silent hypoxia," where oxygen levels in patients become abnormally—and dangerously—low.
Oct. 14, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: covid-19 lungs oxygen health-and-medicine
Is the slow approach to reopening schools failing kids?
Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen gives America an “F” on school reopening efforts, and says we’re in danger of losing thousands of virtual dropouts and wasting mild late summer/early autumn weather we could use to boost in-person learning.
Oct. 14, 2020 • ~15 min
Tags: education covid-19 coronavirus schools health-medicine alvin-powell harvard-th-chan-school-of-public-health joseph-allen reopening ventilation hepa-filter colleges mask
Higher doses of vitamin D slow frailty in mice
Higher doses of vitamin D, referred to as "hypersufficiency," slows the progression of frailty in mice, a new study shows.
Oct. 14, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: aging vitamin-d health-and-medicine frailty
How do pandemics end? History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone
As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it's not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it's usually here to stay.
Oct. 14, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: influenza history-of-medicine infectious-diseases epidemiology public-health covid-19 coronavirus hivaids pandemic malaria hiv tuberculosis plague vaccines measles sars-cov-2 vaccination disease severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-sars black-death global-pandemic ebola-virus covid-19-pandemic middle-east-respiratory-syndrome-mers smallpox emerging-diseases disease-outbreaks smallpox-eradication disease-eradication coronaviruses leprosy endemic history-of-public-health disease-modeling
Popular COVID-19 conspiracies linked to vaccine ‘hesitancy’
An international study finds that people who rate coronavirus conspiracy theories as more reliable are much less likely to say they will get vaccinated.
Oct. 14, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: public-health covid-19 conspiracy fake-news
Crystal insecticide is 12x better at killing malaria mosquitoes
A new crystal form of deltamethrin—a common insecticide used to control malaria—is up to 12 times more effective against mosquitoes than the existing form.
Oct. 13, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: pesticides malaria science-and-technology health-and-medicine mosquitoes
Asthma interventions keep kids out of the hospital
Several asthma interventions are associated with reduced medical costs and a reduced likelihood a child will need to go to the ER or stay in the hospital.
Oct. 13, 2020 • ~5 min
Tags: asthma childrens-health health-and-medicine
Technique recovers lost single-cell RNA-sequencing information
Boosting the efficiency of single-cell RNA-sequencing helps reveal subtle differences between healthy and dysfunctional cells.
Oct. 13, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: chemistry broad-institute ragon-institute research school-of-engineering school-of-science national-institutes-of-health-nih koch-institute institute-for-medical-engineering-and-science-imes
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