We Had the Tool to Prevent Lockdowns and Death
Reading Time: 28 minutes Why the current COVID-19 testing method is wrong, and what we need in its place. And why, if used correctly, the right test could control or even end the pandemic.
FDA Red Tape Entangles Instant Coronavirus Test
Reading Time: 9 minutes A Harvard epidemiologist proposes a coronavirus test that is fast, inexpensive, and could be effective in stopping the pandemic. The only obstacle is getting the FDA to notice.
Public’s Voice Needed, Even in a Pandemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Trump White House should not take advantage of a pandemic to ram regulations through without public input.
Food Poisoning: Climate Change Threatens Health of Billions
Reading Time: 3 minutes New study says global warming could trigger potentially calamitous increase in arsenic levels while reducing rice crop yields.
Life by Chocolate
Reading Time: 3 minutes Innovative students in Scotland are reviving the ancient natural remedy of chocolate, aiming to ease ailments like fatigue and premenstrual syndrome.
Discovered — A Previously Unknown Structure in the Human Body
Reading Time: 2 minutes Researchers have identified the body’s white-blood-cell freeway system — which could be harnessed to help cure disease.
Study Shows We’re Hurtling Toward a Climate-Related Health Crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes A review article in the ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ calls for drastic action to stop climate change-related deaths and an increase in global inequality.
Tiny Robot Drug Delivery Service — Into Your Eyes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Squeamish readers should probably look away now, as this is a story about tiny robots burrowing into eyeballs.
Second Hand Smoke Causing a Western Smog Age
Reading Time: 3 minutes Seattle has become dangerous this week — along with a lot of the western United States — as smoke particles block out the sun and block up lungs.
Why Marching for Life Now Means Attacking Contraception
Reading Time: 6 minutes Federal funding for contraception is in the crosshairs of Republicans as they push their anti-abortion agenda.