'It's Something I Have Never Seen': How The COVID-19 Virus Hijacks Cells
A deep dive into how the new coronavirus infects cells has found that it orchestrates a hostile takeover of their genes unlike any other known viruses do.
A deep dive into how the new coronavirus infects cells has found that it orchestrates a hostile takeover of their genes unlike any other known viruses do.
STAT spoke to leading health care thinkers about how the coronavirus has shattered long-standing assumptions about health policy in the US.
In a secret experiment, researchers replaced the dysfunctional brain cells of a Parkinson's patient with the progeny of an extraordinary type of stem cell.
At the heart of the decision was a process that was — as is often in the case in clinical trials — by turns secretive and bureaucratic.
Reopening the economy will involve coronavirus-testing programs and contact tracing similar to those used in the adult film industry for HIV.
Despite the direct and personal care that nurses provide, they are not valued as they should be. That's a shame, and maybe even a deadly shame.
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Drug makers large and small have scrambled to advance their best ideas for thwarting a pandemic. Here's your guide to drugs and vaccines in development.
The responses to the news I deliver are as varied as the people are.
The outcomes in patients at a Chicago hospital offer only a snapshot of remdesivir's effectiveness, but are the first clinical data to surface to date.
The numbers can seem catastrophic, overwhelming and difficult for the human mind to grasp: What do 60,000 — or even 240,000 — deaths look like?
What's driving this reassessment is a baffling observation about Covid-19: Many patients have blood oxygen levels so low they should be dead.
Martin Shkreli has a pitch to authorities: Let me out of prison for a few months and I'll help stop the novel coronavirus.
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority was built to help with a crisis like the coronavirus, but consultants and experts have concerns about how prepared it is for the massive new workload.
Many experts believe that experts say that, even if some restrictions are relaxed, it's unlikely life as normal will resume in early May.
As the coronavirus outbreak rolls across the country, residents are asking: Who will be hit next? And how fast and how hard?
As important as some of the things we've learned about coronavirus seem to be, there remain critical knowledge gaps that we need to fill.
Countermeasures like social distancing may help stop the spread of Covid-19. But how can policymakers tell if they are doing more good than harm? Data!
To stem the coronavirus outbreak, health officials are leaning on the nation's secretive stockpile of emergency medical supplies. Is it up to the task?
Emma Kleck's trip to a Canadian strip mall pharmacy underscores the lengths to which people with diabetes will go to save on this lifesaving drug.