A few weeks ago, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a startling report: minorities in the US—particularly Latinos—were getting vaccinated at disproportionately lower rates compared to Whites despite suffering higher rates of infection and death from Covid-19.

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A new era of medicine | Glossary | Making genes into medicine | A brief history of big pharma | What genetic medicine could treat | How genetic medicine can live up to its promise

Illustration by Bernice Liu Table of contents A new era of medicine | Glossary | Making genes into medicine | A brief history of big pharma | What genetic medicine could treat | How genetic medicine can live up to its promise A new era of…

Reuters/Shannon Stapleton The US has always relied heavily on private insurance to cover its citizens. As of 2019, roughly two thirds of Americans with healthcare (about 90% of the population) got it through a private company. The remaining third…

Reuters/Carlos Barria For millions of adults who have gotten the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, and millions more waiting for the single-dose vaccine, news that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and…

Where industrialized humans live, air pollution follows. That’s bad news for your lungs, which, in exchanging the gasses necessary to keep us alive, encounter particles that can make the body function less well.

Reuters/Lucas Jackson Where industrialized humans live, air pollution follows. That’s bad news for your lungs, which, in exchanging the gasses necessary to keep us alive, encounter particles that can make the body function less well. Though…

Reuters/Pascal Rossignol In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare providers’ concerns centered on what the virus could do the respiratory system. But as the months dragged on, scientists documented reports of loss of smell and taste,…

Reuters/Edgar Su There are a dozen Covid-19 vaccines that healthcare professionals are administering worldwide, and all of them require needles. That’s not necessarily a bad thing: Shots with modern, single-use needles have worked for inoculations…

There are 13 Covid-19 vaccines in use across the globe just a year after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 crisis a pandemic. All of them are shots to the upper arm.

There are 13 Covid-19 vaccines in use across the globe just a year after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 crisis a pandemic. All of them are shots to the upper arm. These shots, while a critical tool in ending the pandemic, may not…

Aly Song/Reuters A year ago, as cases and death rates skyrocketed worldwide and Western countries implemented their first Covid-19 lockdowns, the question of where the virus came from wasn’t top of mind for scientists. The short answer sufficed:…

Jon Nazca/Reuters After more than a dozen countries in the EU suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine over precautionary safety concerns, it finally looked like things were improving for the pharmaceutical company. A secondary review by…

An annual study of happiness around the world found that positive emotions and overall levels of satisfaction with life remained surprisingly stable across the globe, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Researchers suggest it bodes well for humanity’s resilience.

John Thys/Reuters An annual study of happiness around the world found that positive emotions and overall levels of satisfaction with life remained surprisingly stable across the globe, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Researchers suggest it bodes well…

Europe has a problem getting vaccines into arms—and it started long before anecdotal reports of potential side effects brought the distribution of AstraZeneca’s vaccine to a halt.

Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes Europe has a problem getting vaccines into arms—and it started long before anecdotal reports of potential side effects brought the distribution of AstraZeneca’s vaccine to a halt. Despite being some of the wealthiest countries…

Reuters/Dado Ruvic On March 15, Germany, France, and Italy joined several other European and Asian countries to suspend the distribution of the AstraZeneca/University of Oxford Covid-19 vaccine. Public health leaders in these countries stated that…

Over the past few years, adult beverage companies have been taking a new approach to bringing in customers. Instead of ramping up the alcohol content of their beverages—a trend consistent with craft beers—they’re decreasing it or removing it entirely.