Smithsonian Magazine • 18th March 2021 Dogs Infected With a Deadly Human Parasite Smell Better to Insect Vectors New research suggests female sand flies that pass the protozoa that causes visceral leishmaniasis to humans are attracted to affected canines
Scientific American • 10th March 2021 What the CDC Guidelines for Vaccinated People Mean Infectious disease specialist Nahid Bhadelia discusses new recommendations on how vaccinated people can gather with one another and small groups of unvaccinated individuals
Scientific American • 19th February 2021 Experts Answer the Biggest COVID Vaccine Questions What does "95 percent effective" mean? Should you get vaccinated if you have had COVID? Is there a best vaccine?
Scientific American • 16th December 2020 Food Industry-Backed Research Gives Results Funders Want More than half of these studies yielded outcomes favorable to company products compared to less than 10 percent lacking such support
Scientific American • 14th October 2020 How to Avoid COVID while Voting Epidemiologists offer tips for U.S. voters and poll workers to limit their chances of getting infected
Scientific American • 3rd September 2020 How to Decide Who Should Get a COVID-19 Vaccine First Medical ethicist Ezekiel Emanuel discusses a framework for equitably allocating COVID-19 vaccines based on preventing premature deaths and mitigating long-term economic impacts
Smithsonian Magazine • 12th August 2020 What Scientists Know About Airborne Transmission of the New Coronavirus Aerosol experts, from engineers to doctors, weigh in on the ability of tiny droplets to transmit the virus that causes COVID-19
Scientific American • 8th July 2020 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
Al Jazeera News • 12th May 2020 Coronavirus Shutdown Threatens Chicago's Rohingya Cultural Center Coronavirus crisis forces the centre to cancel Ramadan fundraiser and puts the community it serves in dire straits.
South Side Weekly • 20th March 2020 COVID-19 South Side Community Resource Guide How to figure out if you are eligible, and how to apply
Scientific American • 24th September 2020 When and Why You Should Get a Flu Shot Experts explain why getting vaccinated is important every year—and especially during a pandemic
Scientific American • 20th July 2020 After Surgery, Black Children Are More Likely to Die Than White Children A study of nearly 200 U.S. medical centers found that even apparently healthy kids suffer racial disparities in complications associated with surgery
South Side Weekly • 24th June 2020 As the City Reopens, Mental Health Clinics Keep Services at a Distance A “significant portion” of services could stay remote as clinics permanently adopt telehealth
Scientific American • 7th May 2020 'Breakthrough' COVID-19 Tests Are Currently Cheap, Fast—and Not Very Accurate Antigen-based assays could be used in the home, but critics say their error rates are still an issue
Scientific American • 23rd April 2020 CRISPR Gene Editing May Help Scale Up Coronavirus Testing An inexpensive assay based on the technique can provide yes or no answers in under an hour
Scientific American • 27th March 2020 Here's How Coronavirus Tests Work—and Who Offers Them PCR-based tests are being rolled out in hospitals nationwide, and the Food and Drug Administration is fast-tracking novel approaches as well
Scientific American • 20th March 2020 How to Triage Patients Who Need Intensive Care A new computer model analyzes when to admit people to intensive care units—and when to move them out—which could help doctors handle the coronavirus surge
South Side Weekly • 4th February 2020 What Happened to the Mental Health Task Force? Public Health Commissioner Allison Arwady has proposed a new task force to “coordinate” mental health efforts
Scientific American • 20th January 2020 Old Drug, New Tricks: Existing Medicines Show Promise in Fighting Cancer Dozens of compounds approved for other purposes can kill cancer cells selectively
Nature • 4th December 2019 Gene Therapy Arrives After false starts, drugs that manipulate the code of life are finally changing lives.
