Disease

Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada announced that the U.S.-Canada border would likely remain closed to all non-essential travel due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S.

Herd immunity seems to be a relatively simple idea. The fewer susceptible individuals in the herd, the more difficult it is for the disease to be transmitted.

(1) Mission accomplished? COVID-19 infections continue to spiral out of control in Europe. Any progress Europe made in controlling the coronavirus is now completely gone, as well as the premature gloating.

Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 women, a staggering statistic; however, it is a treatable disease with effective screening.

It is hard to recognize the terror of infantile paralysis, polio, a highly infectious, R0 of 4 to 6, summer-time disease. It was asymptomatic for 95% of its hosts, which was good because the condition has no cure.

Irrespective of how you feel about wearing a mask and maintaining a "social" distance, the preponderance of the evidence is that COVID-19's transmission is through the air and our breathe rather than through touch or direct contact.

A group at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the national science agency of Australia, just

More specifically, the researchers looked at two states within southern India with the where-with-all in terms of healthcare workers and spending to mount an aggressive surveillance program – testing all that sought care for respiratory or flu-lik

(1) More nasty vaccine side effects have been reported. Last month, the British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, which is working in collaboration with the University of Oxford, temporarily suspended a clinical trial for its coron

The treatment given to POTUS is the abstraction we all desire – personalized medicine. Just the right treatment, at the right time, in the right way.