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While the risks associated with COVID-19 generally have decreased over time due to prior exposure to the vaccines and the virus, some people remain at elevated risk, such as the elderly…
Read more Q&A on Reducing COVID-19 Risk for Elderly, ImmunocompromisedEarlier this year, my colleague Yasmin Tayag wrote that Ozempic—the diabetes drug that has become a cultural phenomenon in its off-label use for weight-loss—was about to be old…
Read more Goodbye OzempicThis article was originally published by Undark Magazine. For Taylor Arnold, a registered dietitian nutritionist, feeding her second baby was not easy. At eight weeks old, he screamed…
Read more Anti-Allergy Formula Is on the Rise. Milk Allergies Might Not Be.Somehow, America’s desire for Ozempic is only growing. The drug’s active ingredient, semaglutide, is sold as an obesity medication under the brand name Wegovy—and it has become so…
Read more Ozempic in Teens Is a Confusing MessBoston — For every patient discharged from the pediatric intensive care unit at Mass General for Children in Boston, three more are waiting for that bed. A surge in…
Read more Pediatric ICUs face bed shortage amid RSV surge: “It’s not hyperbole to call it a crisis”This piece was originally published by Undark Magazine. Ben Salentine, the associate director of health-sciences managed care at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, hasn’t…
Read more Doctors Are Failing Patients With DisabilitiesKey Takeaways In a set of identical twins, investigators have discovered a disease that affects the mitochondria, or the specialized compartments within cells that produce energy Unlike in…
Read more New mitochondrial disease identified in identical twinsKey Takeaways With a newly developed technology, scientists can engineer cells to produce oxygen on demand in response to an added chemical The advance can be used to…
Read more Researchers develop system for generating oxygen within cells
