Does drinking coffee reduce the risk of atrial fibrillation? Maybe just a little.

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Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of heart arrhythmia in the U.S. and Europe, affecting millions of people every day. A-fib is a ...

Why the "Lab Leak" Hypothesis Doesn’t Mean the COVID-19 Virus was Engineered

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The “lab leak” hypothesis about the origin of Covid-19 has been getting a lot of attention lately, and deservedly so. This is the idea that ...

Patenting the Covid-19 vaccine is wrong

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The world has recorded at least 166 million cases of Covid-19 and over 3.4 million deaths, according to the Hopkins coronavirus dashboard , ...

Should women be taking estrogen to treat the effects of menopause? New research says yes.

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Until about 20 years ago, physicians routinely prescribed the hormones estrogen and progestin for women after menopause, when levels of both...

Europe's pause on the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine plays right into anti-vaxxers' hands

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Last week, more than a dozen European countries suspended the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. They claimed it was out of an excess of caution,...

We've totally crushed the flu virus this year

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  As awful as the Covid-19 pandemic is, it’s given us at least one benefit: we’ve utterly crushed the flu virus. That’s right–the flu has al...

RNA vaccines have arrived. Let's starting making them for influenza, right now.

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The race to end the Covid-19 pandemic will be won by vaccines. We now have at least four approved vaccines, and the first two–the fast...