Number of words: 677 How often do you poop? You might have heard you should have a bowel movement once a day. But the truth is that if you poop anywhere from three times a day to three times a week, you’re completely and totally normal. Hey there, it’s Dr. Jen Gunter. As an ob-gyn … Read more

Number of words: 844 As anyone who’s stubbed a toe in the dark or spent an hour searching for their keys knows we’re often limited by what we can or cannot see. In fact, even our own bodies can be black boxes. Today, I want to take you through a vision of health care that … Read more

Number of words: 2,272 As COVID-19 vaccination rates pick up around the world, people have reasonably begun to ask: how much longer will this pandemic last? It’s an issue surrounded with uncertainties. But the once-popular idea that enough people will eventually gain immunity to SARS-CoV-2 to block most transmission — a ‘herd-immunity threshold’ — is … Read more

Number of words: 3,108 A person clad in goggles, a mask and a reflective vest dusts a plane’s cabin with a fine mist of disinfectant. The chemical spray is charged with “breakthrough” electrostatic technology that helps it coat every surface and lay waste to any microscopic threats that may be lurking, specifically the corona virus. … Read more

Number of words: 253 Berlin: Scientists have assessed the course of evolution of the novel Coronavirus and predicted that COVID-19 vaccines currently in use across the world may need regular updates to counter new variants of the virus which are capable of escaping the body’s protective antibodies. The study, published in the journal Virus Evolution, … Read more

Number of words: 538 As the COVID-19 cases continue to shoot up across the globe, scientists are still trying to understand the disease’s behavior to stop it and prevent future outbreaks.According to the report, as of mid-August 2020, more than 22M laboratory-confirmed cases have been documented worldwide, with over 770K deaths. To date, numerous possible … Read more

Number of words: 371 A paper by Oxford University researchers suggests that the UK population may already have developed sufficient levels of herd immunity required to prevent a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. The paper, titled ‘The impact of host resistance on cumulative mortality and the threshold of herd immunity for … Read more

Number of words: 8,915 For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap it in two. Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie its ends back together, or shall we undo its dangling braids … Read more

Number of words: 1,642 When 61 people met for a choir practice in a church in Mount Vernon, Washington, on 10 March, everything seemed normal. For 2.5 hours the chorists sang, snacked on cookies and oranges, and sang some more. But one of them had been suffering for 3 days from what felt like a … Read more

Number of words: 311 A “drug,” in bare conceptual terms, is any substance that can produce an effect on the physiology of an animal. Drugs can be simple molecules; water and salt, under appropriate circumstances, can function as potent pharmacological agents. Or drugs can be complex, multifaceted chemicals— molecules derived from nature, such as penicillin, … Read more