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Tina Hesman Saey

Cat allergies may be tamed by adding an asthma therapy to allergy shots

Adding lab-made antibodies to allergy shots may better groom the immune system against cat allergies than standard...

What you need to know about the new omicron booster shots

Revamped COVID-19 vaccines are poised to do battle with the super-contagious omicron variant. On September 1, U.S....

How I’ll decide when it’s time to ditch my mask

For weeks, I have been watching coronavirus cases drop across the United States. At the same time,...

A CDC panel recommends mRNA COVID-19 vaccines over J&J’s, citing fewer risks

An advisory committee for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously December 16 to...

Why it matters that health agencies finally said the coronavirus is airborne

This year, health experts around the world revised their views about how the coronavirus spreads. Aerosol scientists,...

Discovering how we sense temperature and touch wins the 2021 medicine Nobel Prize

Some touching research took the 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. David Julius of the University...

Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and works well for kids ages 5–11

Elementary school–age children may soon be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its...

Why it’s still so hard to find treatments for early COVID-19

More than a year and a half into the pandemic, researchers are beginning to get a handle...