What We Learned in 2019: Health and Medicine
Developments in medicine and health that we’re still thinking about at year’s end.
Developments in medicine and health that we’re still thinking about at year’s end.
In a remote mountain cave in Ecuador, hummingbirds were discovered sleeping and nesting together.
Products must state if they contain chemicals tied to cancer or other risks. As a result, manufacturers have pulled back from using the chemicals, researchers…
It’s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from.
“Vaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations,” Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the state’s surgeon general, wrote in a…
Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.
The Chinese start-up used several technological tricks, including a method called “mixture of experts,” to significantly reduce the cost of building the technology.
It is the first ruling in a case challenging “shield laws” intended to protect doctors in states that support abortion rights who send abortion pills…
The vets had no symptoms, and one worked only in states where no dairy infections had been reported.
Dr. Lawrence Tabak, the No. 2 official at the National Institutes of Health, did not give a reason for his departure.
The findings showed the highest mortality occurred among infants who were Black, lived in Southern states or had fetal birth defects.