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FDA won’t require lengthy clinical trials for COVID-19 boosters
Future COVID-19 vaccine boosters won’t have to go through a traditional, lengthy clinical trial process to attain emergency use authorization in the U.S., according to a report in Reuters. An…
Twitter says Elon Musk’s tweets advocating against expert COVID-19 guidance don’t violate its rules
Twitter has said that tweets posted early Tuesday morning by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk that irresponsibly call for restrictions put in place to defend against the spread of…
The CDC launches a ‘coronavirus self-checker’ bot called Clara for people in the United States
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introduced a bot over the weekend to help people make decisions about what to do if they have potential symptoms of COVID-19.…
Vaping additive blamed for outbreak produces ‘exceptionally toxic’ byproducts
The threat of vape lung seems to have receded to the distant past now that we are all facing the coronavirus, but new research has shed light on the nature…
Home diagnostics startup Everlywell is launching an at-home coronavirus test sample kit
The state of testing for the novel coronavirus currently spreading globally in the U.S. is abysmal, relative to other developed countries, but there are a number of efforts underway to…
Trying to make up for lost time, the CDC will distribute 1.1M COVID-19 tests by this weekend
In a press conference late on Friday, Vice President Mike Pence said that the government will finally have the capacity to provide over 1 million tests for the novel coronavirus,…
Zuckerberg details the ways Facebook and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are responding to COVID-19
Mark Zuckerberg has outlined some of the steps that Facebook and his family’s non-profit, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, are taking to respond to the spread of both the novel coronavirus…
Vape lung is on the decline as CDC report fixes blame on oily additive
The CDC has issued a set of reports showing that the lung disease associated with vaping seems to be declining from peak rates, and that Vitamin E acetate seems —…
Vape lung ‘breakthrough’ suggests lethal culprit in THC products could be vitamin E acetate
Official word has come down from federal authorities on one potential cause of the mystery illness affecting vape users: Vitamin E acetate, a chemical found in some vaping products that…
Every state but Alaska has reported vape lung victims, now numbering 1,479 nationwide
A lung condition apparently caused by vaping has been reported in every state but Alaska, the CDC has announced. The total number of suspected and confirmed cases has risen to…
India’s government has announced an immediate ban on e-cigarettes — citing youth-focused public health concerns. In a news statement following a cabinet meeting today, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the…
Move over Cas9, CRISPR-Cas3 might hold the key to solving the antibiotics crisis
Researchers at North Carolina-based Locus Biosciences think they have a potential cure for antibiotic resistance using CRISPR’s lesser-known Cas3 enzyme. Most of the interest in CRISPR technology centers around the…
NEA-Backed Omada Health Launches Its 16-Week Digital Health Program To Bring Diabetes Prevention Online
Last December, Omada Health raised $800K in seed funding from a host of angel and venture investors, including NEA, Aberdare, Kapor Capital, TriplePoint Ventures and Esther Dyson — to name…
Land lines becoming extinct? 25% of Americans think so
File this one under “well, duh!”. Researchers working for the NCHS “discovered” something that has been covered for years: more and more people are canceling their land lines, and just…
Well, bad news for gamers in the Pacific Northwest. Turns out that according to a study by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) the average age and weight of the…