Since early 2020, when the pandemic exploded around the world, Massachusetts has seen nearly 19,000 COVID deaths and more than 840,000 cases. If a…
Last week, the FDA authorized the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. After conducting their own review, the CDC now recommends…
Eating milk chocolate every day may sound like a recipe for weight gain, but a new study of postmenopausal women has found that eating…
Researchers at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have created a detailed atlas of a critical region of the developing…
The pandemic may be easing, but a new set of emotional challenges has only just begun. One worker got the green light to return…
A decision-support tool helped health care workers distinguish symptoms associated with COVID-19 vaccinations from symptoms of the virus itself, found a study by investigators…
A skin pigmentation mechanism that can darken the color of human skin as a natural defense against ultraviolet (UV)-associated cancers has been discovered by…
Most of us are familiar with COVID-19’s hallmark symptoms of a loss of taste or smell and difficulty breathing, but a full 60 percent…
The thickness of growth marks in primary (or “baby”) teeth may help identify children at risk for depression and other mental health disorders later…