Share this on WhatsApp This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, which causes severe liver disease in more than 70 million people worldwide. The prize was jointly awarded to Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, both Americans, and British-born scientist Michael Houghton. Three […]
Share this on WhatsApp This year, 2020, has been one of incredible loss. We are approaching 200,000 deaths in America from the COVID-19 pandemic, and nearly a million around the globe. And on the streets the killing of Black, Indigenous, Latinx or others of color, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Daniel Prude, Rayshard Brooks and nearly […]
Share this on WhatsApp U.S. health officials are urging Americans to get their flu shots this year in the hopes of thwarting a winter “twindemic”—a situation in which both influenza and COVID-19 spread and sicken the public. But a new study suggests that there could be another key reason to get a flu jab this […]
