Officials and policymakers say direct-to-consumer drug advertising encourages patients to seek treatments they don’t need and raises heath care costs, but the true picture is more nuanced.
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Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human intelligence.
Superar infecciones adiestra al sistema inmune para enfrentarse no solo a otras enfermedades infecciosas, sino también al cáncer. Un experimento lo ha puesto a prueba con ratones a los que se inoculó el virus de la gripe.
La respuesta al brote de SARS-CoV-2 no fue buena. La falta de cooperación internacional y de personal y la escasez de materiales para responder a una emergencia son algunos de los fallos más evidentes. Además de un importante vacío legal e institucional para decidir e implementar medidas de contención.
An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean each year – equivalent to dumping in a garbage truckload of it every minute. A new report calls on the US to help stem the deluge.
Researchers are piecing together clues to better understand the puzzling array of symptoms in those who never seem to fully recover from COVID-19.
Like rings in tree trunks, the layers of our teeth carry a detailed record of our growth — and reveal lead contamination is common.
¿Sabes qué es y cómo funciona el botox? Te explicamos lo que deberías considerar antes de hacerte un tratamiento.
Con o sin pandemia, la vacunación contra la gripe salva vidas, razón suficiente para vacunarse todos los años. Pero en tiempos de COVID-19, la vacunación resulta todavía más importante.
Botox, one of the most common dermatological treatments, is now trending with millennials. But can too much Botox be bad for you?
Científicos están investigando un posible vínculo entre el síndrome de Guillain-Barré y COVID-19 ya que este ha aparecido en pandemias anteriores con otros coronavirus como el SARS y el MERS.
As if the symptoms of COVID-19 were not disturbing enough, physicians have noted a rare neurological condition that emerges during some severe cases of this viral infection.
After your body fights off an infection, antibodies remain in your blood. Two researchers explain how tests identify these antibodies and what the data can be used for.
Pengembangan vaksin ini akan mendapatkan bantuan dari penelitian yang telah dilakukan sebelumnya mengenai virus yang masih berhubungan dengan 2019-nCov, yakni SARS dan MERS.
El coronavirus que surgió en Wuhan ha afectado ya a seis mil personas solo en China, donde han fallecido al menos 132 infectados. Varios países han informado de casos dentro de sus fronteras. Todo el mundo se encuentra a la espera de la creación de la vacuna que permita contener la propagación de la enfermedad.
One of the dangers of the new coronavirus is that there is no treatment – and no vaccine. But researchers had already been at work on vaccines for close-related viruses.
Outbreaks of zoonotic diseases call for a collaborative approach to surveillance.
The World Health Organization has made bold progress by including many tests for non-communicable diseases on its new ‘Essential Diagnostics List.’
We don’t know the exact details of why Abbas Khan, the British surgeon who died while in custody, was arrested last November at a regime checkpoint in Syria and imprisoned and tortured, or the manner of…
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof recently nominated Syria as the world capital of human suffering. He has a point. It’s not just the bombs, bullets, and now gas rained down upon the civilian population…
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Professor of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Assistant Professor of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Institute for Humane Studies
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Assistant Professor of Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Professor of Vaccinology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Professor, Environmental Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Mohs Surgeon, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Associate Professor in Medicine/Cardiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Research Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Executive Vice President for Health and Policy at EcoHealth Alliance; Adjunct Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai