The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Biogen‘s Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm in June was heralded as a historic triumph in the fight against a disease that kills thousands of Americans every year. But the excitement around the first FDA-approved drug to target the underlying cause of the memory-robbing disease—not just its symptoms—has ebbed since […]
The Oxford-AstraZeneca covid vaccine. Karwai Tang | Getty Images The U.S. government will share the majority of its donated Covid-19 vaccine doses through COVAX, the World Health Organization-led program that provides shots to countries in need, the White House announced Thursday. The Biden administration has committed to donating at least 20 million doses of Covid […]
Currently, a topic of intense research is long COVID. One recurring symptom that has been identified in some long COVID patients is peripheral neuropathy – damage to nerves that causes numbness and weakness in affected areas of the body (not including the brain or spinal cord).1 A study from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and […]
