Medical Students Should Be Taught How to Care for Immigrant Patients
Physicians depend on race-based markers to determine what to look for—but where someone grew up can be more important than their ethnicity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Medical Students Should Be Taught How to Care for Immigrant Patients
Physicians depend on race-based markers to determine what to look for—but where someone grew up can be more important than their ethnicity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
New Yorkers Flattened the Curve, but …
...a rush to reopen could undo all of our hard work -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coronavirus News Roundup, July 4-July 9
Pandemic highlights for the week -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coronavirus News Roundup, July 4-July 9
Pandemic highlights for the week -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Racism in Health Care Isn’t Always Obvious
As physicians, we believe that recognizing it begins with understanding our own privilege and biases -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Viral Learning Curve
Drug manufacturers are racing to create a protective measure against coronavirus without destroying the patient’s immune system -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
COVID-19 Is Forcing Us to Rethink Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatments
Participation rates were already low, but the pandemic threatens to drive them even lower -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Mounting Evidence Suggests Coronavirus is Airborne–but Health Advice Has Not Caught Up
After months of denying the importance of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organization is reconsidering its stance -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Vaccinations Have Sharply Declined Nationwide during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rates of childhood immunization have fallen across the U.S., raising the risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coronavirus Is Attacking the Navajo ‘because We Have Built the Perfect Human for It to Invade’
A traditional Diné storyteller explains how disadvantage and injustice have shaped her people’s encounter with COVID-19 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease
Lobsters, birds and some primates use quarantine to ward off infections -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Biggest Psychological Experiment in History Is Running Now
What can the pandemic teach us about how people respond to adversity? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Lessons for COVID-19 from the Early Days of AIDS
A pioneer in the fight against HIV reflects on the dangers of excess optimism about a coronavirus vaccine -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coronavirus News Roundup, June 27-July 3
Pandemic highlights for the week -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Dentist Will See You Now: But Will You See the Dentist?
Dental practices are taking measures to keep patients safe. Some people are wary, however -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com