Health

Giorgio Sirugo, Sarah Tishkoff, and Scott Williams. Credit: University of Pennsylvania COVID-19 has put race-based health disparities on full display, but such inequities extend far deeper than the current pandemic. An enduring challenge for physicians and scientific researchers has been to distinguish health differences that result from genetic predispositions from …

In 1990, Purdue University professor George Wodicka conceived of a medical device that gives clinicians vital information to make more informed, life-saving decisions for their smallest patients. Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood If a newborn is moved or becomes agitated while on a ventilator, the breathing tube also could move. …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Eric Yung and his aunt, Patricia Lee, have seen a lot from their vantage point at Union Square Flowers, the stand they run just off Market Street in San Francisco. But last month, when the two saw a man rush by with a large knife in …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The decision of whether to have a child can be hard even under the best of circumstances. For those with a family history of debilitating disease, it’s often gut-wrenching. If only there were some way to answer the all-important question: Will my child be healthy? To …

In this May 28, 2021, file photo, customers sit in a terrace bar in downtown Barcelona, Spain. Coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths are plummeting across much of Europe. Vaccination rates are accelerating, and with them, the promise of summer vacations. Credit: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File When Italy won the Eurovision …

Credit: Andres Siimon The most comprehensive data on global trends in smoking highlight its enormous global health toll. The number of smokers worldwide has increased to 1.1 billion in 2019, with tobacco smoking causing 7.7 million deaths—including 1 in 5 deaths in males worldwide. Of particular concern are the persistently …

Measuring heart rate, energy expenditure through gas exchange and artery blood flow via ultrasound. Credit: Charles Steward, Author provided I study the effects of exercise on the body. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that when I’m not in the lab, I like to keep active by hitting the gym or going …

A family enjoy their vacations at the pool of Nissi Blue hotel in southeast resort of Ayia Napa, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Saturday, May 22, 2021. Cypriot hotel and other tourism-related business owners say they’d like to see the COVID-19 pandemic-induced uncertainty over travel bookings to the …

“We can act now to put us in a position so that when the next pandemic does happen, we don’t have to allow it to get out of control,” says Michael Mina. Credit: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer Michael Mina is assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School …

Buddhist monks wait to receive Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines at Priest hospital in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, May 18 , 2021. Thailand had about 7,100 cases, including 63 deaths, in all of last year, in what was regarded as a success story. Taxi drivers are starved for customers, weddings are suddenly canceled, …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain High blood pressure is something that’s mentioned so often—and so casually—on television shows and in books, that it’s easy to forget it is a disease that can lead to serious health issues. It affects almost half of all adults in the United States. And that hasn’t …

In this May 11, 2021 file photo, a health worker takes a nasal swab sample of a Kashmiri man to test for COVID-19 in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. A dip in the number of coronavirus cases in Mumbai is offering a glimmer of hope for India, which is suffering through …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain After Maria Turner’s minivan was totaled in an accident a dozen years ago, she grew impatient waiting for the insurance company to process the claim. One night, she saw a red pickup truck on eBay for $20,000. She thought it was just what she needed. She …

Not only are the soft, flexible wearable devices more comfortable for mothers, they also exceed the capabilities of monitoring systems currently used in top hospitals. Credit: Northwestern University Laboring mothers have been wearing the same cumbersome, polyester fetal-monitoring belt for decades. Not only can these belts slip out of place, …

Indian woman examined at a rural pregnancy clinic in Bihar, India, in 2011. Credit: Shutterstock/TravelStock Global health researcher Vyoma Dhar Sharma had just embarked on a fieldwork trip to India as COVID-19 began sweeping through the population and overwhelming hospitals. It has taken a terrible toll on her country—and her …

In this April 14, 2021, file photo, medical workers tend to coronavirus patients in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Kenyatta National Hospital, in Nairobi, Kenya. Amid concerns over India, Kenya, which is coming down from a recent peak in cases, halted flights with the country for two weeks, while …