A new, highly-transmissible variant of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has been circulating in the United States, and is outcompeting other subvariants to take up a larger proportion of detected COVID-19 caseloads. Medical experts are also bristling at the unofficial nickname ‘The Kraken’ being applied to this subvariant,read more
A Phase I clinical trial of an experimental anticancer drug has begun, using a specialized virus designed to selectively attack the cells that make up the targeted tumor. A separate cancer study has also produced the unprecedented—yet very welcome—outcome of successfully treating the cancer that was present in all ofread more
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the true worldwide death toll from the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic was 14.9 million, nearly three times the official count, based on the number of excess deaths reported up to the end of 2021. This discrepancy in the number ofread more
Five million people globally have been confirmed to have died from COVID-19 since the first known patient was diagnosed with the SARS-like disease just 23 months ago in China. Infections from the fast-spreading coronavirus have now become the world’s third leading cause of death, after heart disease and stroke. Althoughread more