COVID

May 11 2026HEALTH

New Diabetes Risks After COVID: What the Numbers Say

A huge study looked at 42 million people in England to see if catching COVID can lead to new diabetes. The researchers focused on two kinds of diabetes: type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D). They wanted to know if factors like body weight, how much money people make, and where they live change the ri

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May 08 2026HEALTH

New Pathways: How a Pre‑Surgery Study Learned to Adapt

A research team set out to see if breathing exercises before operations could lower lung problems after surgery. The study involved patients scheduled for heart, chest and belly surgeries in the UK’s National Health Service. They ran a randomised controlled trial, meaning some patients received t

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May 06 2026HEALTH

Rising Outbreaks, Rising Risks: How COVID‑19 Heightened Violence Against Women and Girls

Recent global health crises, driven by climate change, rapid city growth, and shifting landscapes, have forced governments to take emergency actions that can unintentionally raise the danger of violence toward women and girls. A comprehensive review examined how any outbreak, especially COVID‑19, ha

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May 06 2026SCIENCE

Understanding Hidden Factors in Disease Spread: A Fresh Look at Predicting Epidemics

During the early COVID-19 wave, experts tossed around different ways to model how diseases spread. One approach used SEIR—the Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered—framework but added a twist: it considered that people might not all be equally likely to catch or spread the virus. The idea was tha

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May 05 2026HEALTH

Long COVID: Why the Fight Is Still On

The pandemic may have lost its initial shock, but a silent threat keeps rising. In 2025, the World Health Organization reported that COVID‑19 caused more than 20, 000 deaths in the United States alone. Meanwhile, a huge number of people are still battling its lingering effects. A December study fro

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May 02 2026HEALTH

How Canada is shaping the future of organ transplants

Canada has quietly become a leader in organ transplantation, with its medical teams solving tough problems that help patients worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic forced doctors to pause and ask tough questions about what works and what still needs fixing in transplant medicine. While the world was dist

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Apr 29 2026POLITICS

Forgotten Facts: The Disappearance of Early COVID Records

When COVID-19 first spread in 2020, governments worldwide scrambled to track every detail. Yet somehow, many critical records from those early months vanished from official databases. Instead of proper storage, some ended up buried in personal email accounts, making them nearly impossible to retriev

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Apr 28 2026POLITICS

Former NIH Officer Charged Over COVID Record Missteps

A grand jury in Maryland has brought charges against David Mor — a senior figure at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the height of the pandemic. The case centers on alleged attempts to hide and alter federal records from April 2020 through December 2022, including dat

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Apr 28 2026HEALTH

Vaccine Talk: How Online Chatter Shapes COVID-19 Shot Decisions in Texas

In Tarrant County, Texas, the way people talk about COVID-19 vaccines online says a lot about who’s getting the shot—and who’s holding back. New research dug into Facebook posts in English and Spanish over time to see what fears or questions pop up most. Early findings show safety worries and side-e

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Apr 25 2026POLITICS

Lancet Says No to Senate Testimony on COVID Origins

The top medical journal decided it would not give evidence to a U. S. Senate probe about where the COVID‑19 outbreak began. The editor, Richard Horton, told a news event in Barcelona that the journal would not participate in what he called an “administration that has attacked some of the foremost sc

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