Pfizer’s vaccine announcement marks the beginning of the pandemic’s end, but huge logistical challenges lie ahead.
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The Pandemic’s End Begins
Tag Archives: Medicine
The HeLa Line
Albeit decades late, a Black woman’s unwitting contribution to science is being acknowledged, along with past injustices.
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Guided To A Cul-De-Sac By Science
Policymakers who are “guided by science” are actually guided by the scientists whose advice they choose to heed.
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The Parochial School Of Medicine
Doctors battling COVID-19 must use the pharmaceutical weapons they have, even if clinical trials are pending.
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Is Alzheimer’s Treatment On The Way?
Regulators will soon evaluate the first post-onset treatment for the specter that terrifies and torments millions: Alzheimer’s.
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Another Shot At A Lyme Vaccine
Advocates for Lyme disease patients are surprisingly skeptical of efforts to create a new vaccine or to revive an old one.
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Supporting The ‘Right To Try’
More good than harm is apt to come from granting a terminally ill patient the “right to try” unproven therapies.
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Some Lawyer Ads Can Scare You To Death
Pharmaceutical ads warn of side effects from taking prescription drugs; attorney ads should caution against stopping them.
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What If Death Is Less Certain Than Taxes?
A teenager’s court battle in Britain hints at future questions of life after death.
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GMOs And Vaccine Resistance
Years of anti-GMO activism may have inadvertently planted seeds of resistance to bioengineered coronavirus vaccines.
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