The Last Drug That Can Fight Gonorrhea Is Starting to Falter
Data gaps, funding cuts, and shyness about sex let gonorrhea gain drug resistance. There are no new treatments yet. ..
Data gaps, funding cuts, and shyness about sex let gonorrhea gain drug resistance. There are no new treatments yet. ..
Fat activists say they’re tools of coercion. Celebrities are taking them to get slim. Is this really the road people want to go down? ..
Data from Sweden and the US suggests cash incentives increase uptake without denting people’s trust in vaccines or future willingness to get them. ..
Lab animals have long borne the brunt of drug safety trials. A new law allows drugmakers to use miniature tissue models, or organs-on-chips, instead. ..
Abstaining from alcohol can have immediate benefits. But lasting gains require lasting change. ..
The country’s surge in cases is a human tragedy but isn’t showing signs of changing the Covid picture in the West—where the virus is already running ..
Each year thousands die because there aren’t enough organs for transplants, and I may be one of them. It’s time to start compensating donors. ..
To preserve humankind’s diverse bacteria, scientists are harvesting, freezing, and storing poop from around the world. ..
A new study shows that as temperatures drop, nasal cells release fewer of the tiny protectors that bind and neutralize invading germs. ..
From spinal implants that allow paralyzed people to walk to smashing an asteroid off course with a rocket, this wasn’t just a year of negative headlines. ..