Category: Health & Wellbeing

While ventilator shortages have been largely averted in the U.S., this lifesaving therapy is scarce. How to choose which critically ill patients get it?While ventilator…

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Scientists have been dreaming of disease-detecting breathalyzers for years. Has the time for the technology finally come?Scientists have been dreaming of disease-detecting breathalyzers for years.…

View More A Covid Test as Easy as Breathing

The agency faced criticism for approving Aduhelm for all Alzheimer’s patients. Now it recommends that the drug be given only to those with mild symptoms.The…

View More In Reversal, F.D.A. Calls for Limits on Who Gets Alzheimer’s Drug

The approval of Aduhelm to treat Alzheimer’s disease has raised hope among older adults, but many doctors wonder if it is warranted.The approval of Aduhelm…

View More A New Alzheimer’s Drug Offers More Questions Than Answers

The agency’s acting head said a review should look into whether any interactions between agency staff and the drug developer, Biogen, broke F.D.A. rules.The agency’s…

View More F.D.A. Requests Federal Investigation of Alzheimer’s Drug Approval

In a review of recent studies and comparisons to other outbreaks, a group of virologists contends that there is more evidence to support a natural…

View More Scientists Press Case Against the Covid Lab Leak Theory