Schools Can Open Safely during COVID, the Latest Evidence Shows
The risk of COVID transmission in schools is very low if precautions are taken -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How Health Care Leaders Can Support Their Frontline Workers
The pandemic has taught us important lessons about the needs of the health care workforce -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Suspension–What This Means For You
An infectious disease doctor answers questions about the CDC’s and FDA’s decision to pause the vaccine’s use over a possible link with blood clots -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Why Race Matters in Personalized Health Care
Achieving better, more equitable treatments requires looking at multiple factors that affect populations differently, including genetic variations -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Gender-Affirming Health Care Should Be a Right, Not a Crime
Some states are going to war against young transgender people -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
More Women Than Men Are Getting COVID Vaccines
The reasons may include women’s roles as caregivers and their greater likelihood of seeking out preventive health care in general -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How Could a COVID Vaccine Cause Blood Clots?
Researchers are searching for possible links between unusual clotting and the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coronavirus News Roundup, April 3 – April 9
Pandemic highlights for the week -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
COVID, Quickly, Episode 4: The Virtual Vaccine Line and Shots for Kids
Today we bring you the fourth episode in a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
New Arkansas Law–and Similar Bills–Endanger Transgender Youth, Research Shows
The legislation runs counter to evidence that puberty blockers and hormone treatments are safe and save lives -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Nature Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic
In March 2020, Ruth DeFries finished a manuscript more than five years in the making. It turned out to be both prescient and prophetic. In this document, the Columbia University professor argued that... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Slovakia Offers a Lesson in How Rapid Testing Can Fight COVID
One of the country’s top epidemiologists explains how population-wide use of rapid antigen tests—in combination with other measures—helped get its outbreak under control -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Global Vaccine Equity Is Much More Important Than ‘Vaccine Passports’
We need to suppress the level of SARS-CoV-2 in as many humans as possible as quickly as possible -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Pandemic Doesn’t Mean We Have to Choose between Physical and Mental Health
For much of the past year, many people have felt that they were being forced to pick one or the other -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
At Last, Some Help for Meth Addiction
Studies show that a behavioral treatment works well and that two medications may also be useful -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Vermont to Give Minority Residents Priority for COVID Vaccines
But some health experts say people of color still need improved access to vaccination sites, along with more information -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com