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News Articles: Treatments

People opposed to COVID-19 vaccines often embrace ivermectin, a drug they think is not getting the attention it deserves. Here, an anti-vaccination protester takes part in a rally against vaccine mandates last month in Santa Monica, Calif.

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  • Health

How Ivermectin Became The New Focus Of The Anti-Vaccine Movement

Scientists are still studying whether the deworming medicine could have any effect on COVID-19. But the frenzy over the drug has far more to do with politics than science. Here's how that happened.

September 20, 2021
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  • Pien Huang
Various types of pufferfish are among those served as the gastronomic delicacy fugu. The paralyzing nerve toxin some of these fish contain is also under study by brain scientists hunting new ways to treat amblyopia.

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  • Science

Pufferfish Toxin Holds Clues To Treating 'Lazy Eye' In Adults

The visual problem is usually treated in kids by temporarily covering the other eye with a patch. But that doesn't always work. Research now shows crucial brain rewiring can happen in adulthood, too.

September 15, 2021
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
Getting vaccinated during pregnancy is one of the best ways to make sure your vulnerable newborn benefits from your antibodies to the coronavirus, doctors say.

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  • Health

Babies, The Delta Variant And COVID: What Parents Need To Know

The rate of new cases of COVID-19 among babies and children under 4 years old in the U.S. recently surpassed the rate of new cases among adults older than 65. Here's how to protect newborns.

September 09, 2021
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
ECMO is the highest level of life support — beyond a ventilator, which pumps oxygen via a tube through the windpipe into the lungs. Instead, the ECMO process basically functions as a heart and lungs outside of the body — routing the blood via tubing to a machine that oxygenates it, then pumps it back into the patient.

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  • Health

Across The COVID-Ravaged South, High-Level Life Support Is Difficult To Find

ECMO, the highest level of mechanical life support, functions as a temporary heart and lungs for some of COVID-19's sickest patients. But the waitlist is too long for many patients who need it.

September 07, 2021
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  • Blake Farmer
Health care providers who administer a COVID-19 vaccine "off-label" face legal liability, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns.

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  • Health

CDC Warns Against Off-Label Use Of COVID Vaccine

Using the COVID vaccine "off-label" — whether that's for booster shots or young children — may be tempting to some vaccine providers, but the CDC warns it could get them into trouble.

September 02, 2021
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  • Sydney Lupkin and
  • Pien Huang
Testing your antibody levels to get a sense of your COVID-19 protection may be tempting, especially as you wait for a booster shot. But scientists say these widely available tests can't tell you the full story, at least not yet.

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  • Health

Antibody Tests Should Not Be Your Go-To For Checking COVID Immunity

Worries about waning immunity and talk of COVID booster shots has some Americans checking their antibody levels to see if they're protected. But scientists warn blood tests don't tell the full story.

August 28, 2021
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  • Will Stone
For many Americans who struggle with depression, anxiety or other mood disorders, cost remains a major hurdle to getting treatment, according to a survey published by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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  • Mental Health

Many Americans Are Reaching Out For Mental Health Support — But Can't Get It

The pandemic has made people more open to seeking help, a new survey finds, but cost and difficulty in finding a mental health care provider are still big obstacles.

August 25, 2021
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Scientists have studied the blood of people who were part of a large trial for the Moderna vaccine to measures antibodies that can help predict levels of immunity after getting a COVID-19 shot.

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  • Science

New Evidence Points To Antibodies As A Reliable Indicator Of Vaccine Protection

After vaccination, antibody levels can help predict how much protection a COVID-19 shot offers, scientists are learning. The finding could speed up the development of future vaccines.

August 24, 2021
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  • Joe Palca
Patients with opioid addiction who show up in a hospital's ER face many barriers to recovery, and so do the doctors trying to help them. Easing those barriers on both sides helps patients get into good follow-up programs that lead to lasting change.

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  • Health

Many ERs Fail People Who Struggle With Addiction. These New Approaches Might Help

Starting treatment for addiction in the emergency room greatly improves the chances recovery will last, experts say. Cutting red tape, hiring advocates and Uber vouchers can all make a difference.

August 21, 2021
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  • Aneri Pattani
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch are helping to test the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine against coronavirus variants.

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  • Health

A Texas Lab Performs Crucial Testing For Pfizer's COVID Vaccine

The lab has access to a high-security facility that Pfizer needed to prove its COVID-19 vaccine was working. Now the scientists there are testing the vaccine's effectiveness against viral variants.

August 20, 2021
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  • Joe Palca
It's not a known side effect, but some people are experiencing changes to their menstrual cycles after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Reports have led some researchers to take a closer look at the possible connection.

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  • Health

Why Reports Of Menstrual Changes After COVID Vaccine Are Tough To Study

Some people have reported getting a lighter or heavier period after getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Cause for concern? Doctors say no. Could it be a temporary side effect? That's harder to determine.

August 10, 2021
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Scientists are working to develop new treatments for Alzheimer's disease by looking beyond amyloid plaques, which have been the focus of most Alzheimer's drug development in the past 20 years.

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  • Medical Treatments

Future Alzheimer's Treatments Aim To Do More Than Clear Plaques From The Brain

Alzheimer's researchers are trying new treatment approaches, including trying to boost the immune system, remove toxic tangles of protein and stimulate brain waves with light and sound.

August 10, 2021
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  • Jon Hamilton
Annie Kunz in the women's heptathlon 100-meter hurdles during the Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore., in June. Building her training regimen around recent findings from sex-specific sports medicine research has made a difference in her performance, says Kunz, who is competing at the Tokyo Olympics.

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  • Health

Sports Science Is Changing How Female Olympians Train. It Could Help You, Too

U.S. Olympic heptathlete Annie Kunz says tracking her monthly cycles and learning she needs to eat more and get more naps when she's fatigued has already improved her athletic performance.

August 03, 2021
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  • Maggie Mertens
As part of a clinical study, a patient with Alzheimer's disease receives an infusion of aducanumab at a Providence, R.I., hospital in 2019. Aducanumab is being marketed as Aduhelm.

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  • Health

A New Alzheimer's Drug Comes With Lots Of Questions About How To Use It

Weeks after the Food and Drug Administration approved the Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, doctors are struggling to figure out who should get the drug and how to use it safely.

July 29, 2021
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  • Jon Hamilton
UCSF neurosurgeon Edward Chang says a system that lets a man express his thoughts at 15 words a minute is just the beginning for computer-mediated communication.

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  • Health

Experimental Brain Implant Lets Man With Paralysis Turn His Thoughts Into Words

A stroke left a man paralyzed and speechless. Now a device that decodes brain signals is letting him generate words and sentences.

July 15, 2021
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  • Jon Hamilton
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