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SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, shown in red, have heavily infected a cell in this colorized scanning electron micrograph.
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Health

How COVID-19 attacks the brain and may cause lasting damage

Many patients who are hospitalized for COVID-19 are discharged with symptoms such as those associated with a brain injury.

2 years ago

Researches have learned a lot in 2020 about how the coronavirus spreads through the air. (Francesco Carta fotografo/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

For scientists who study virus transmission, 2020 was a watershed year

The emergence of COVID-19 started scientists on a year-long, crash course to learn how this virus travels through the air and how to stop it. They learned a lot, and quickly.

2 years ago

As a budding school teacher, Mimi Hayes (right) was having a stroke at age 22, medical professionals kept explaining her symptoms away and sending her home until her mom (left) stepped in. (Courtesy of Mimi Hayes)
The Pulse
Health

How my mom saved my life after doctors missed my brain bleed

As a budding school teacher was having a stroke at age 22, medical professionals kept explaining her symptoms away and sending her home. Until her mom stepped in.

2 years ago

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A group of lemurs at the Brandywine Zoo
Community

Endangered lemur exhibit opens as part of major expansion at Delaware’s only zoo

The Brandywine Zoo’s new lemur exhibit is part of a species survival plan and is one step in the biggest capital improvement plan in the zoo’s 115-year history.

2 years ago

A personality test showing options for extrovert and introvert
The Pulse
Science

The Puzzle of Personality

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Open to new experiences, or comforted by routine? Shy or the life of the party? Figuring out what m ...

Air Date: November 27, 2020

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Preston Estep, head of RaDVac, at work in a Boston lab. (Image courtesy of Kayana Szymczak)
The Pulse
Health

‘Warp speed’ is too slow for scientists testing COVID-19 vaccine on themselves

The head of a vaccine development collaborative says we’re letting the virus run the show because of overblown vaccine safety fears and a fundamental failure to balance risk.

2 years ago

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NPR
Health

Clots, strokes and rashes. Is COVID-19 a disease of the blood vessels?

COVID-19 can cause symptoms that go well beyond the lungs, from strokes to organ failure. So esearchers are studying how the virus affects the vascular system.

2 years ago

Chipmunk in tree
Science

Beavers and sturgeon and bass, oh my! What wildlife tells us about watershed health

Across the region, WHYY readers and listeners report an increase in wildlife in and around their local waterways. Is that a good sign for the watershed?

2 years ago

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Maja Watkins, (right) at 5 years old, with brother Zachary Miletich, 7, in Danville, California, 1992. (Courtesy of Maja Watkins)
The Pulse
Health

Getting to the basics of humor for people on the autism spectrum

Many don’t perceive jokes that rely on sarcasm and dual meanings. Improv comedy can help with understanding that, and teach other life skills.

2 years ago

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The Pulse
Science

The Hidden Costs of Science

In science, we tend to focus on the destination, not the journey. But for every big breakthrough, every historic discovery, there are cou ...

Air Date: October 16, 2020

Listen 49:15
Dr. Sean Dooley briefs reporters at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. on Saturday. Trump was admitted to the hospital after contracting the coronavirus. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
NPR
Health

Trump is taking remdesivir. Here’s how it works to control the coronavirus

Trump is on day two of a planned 5-day course of remdesivir. The medication works by making it harder for the coronavirus to replicate within the body.

2 years ago

This February 2018 photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Public Health shows The Gesundheit II machine in Dr. Donald Milton's Public Health Aerobiology, Virology, and Exhaled Biomarker Laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Public Health in College Park, Md. (University of Maryland School of Public Health via AP)
Science

Tiny airborne particles may pose a big coronavirus problem

One study is trying to help scientists and researchers answer one big question: Just how does the virus that causes COVID-19 spread from one person to another?

2 years ago

Researchers of the Rio de Janeiro State University prepare an instrument to sample airborne sewage droplets for the presence of the new coronavirus at the Santa Marta slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, July 27, 2020. The researchers are working together with volunteers of a local sanitation team to see if they can detect the virus in the air and evaporation from the slum’s open-air sewers. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
The Pulse
Science

Science and Medicine, Under Pressure

The pandemic has put a lot of pressure on both our health care system and the scientific process — exposing weaknesses that have long e ...

Air Date: September 18, 2020

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Dr. Alexis Lieberman. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Some doctors think they’ve found a cheap, generic drug which treats COVID-19. So why hasn’t anyone heard of it?

How faulty data, Big Pharma and the fallout from hydroxychloroquine has haunted the research world, as desperate doctors and researchers look for a COVID-19 treatment.

2 years ago

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(Jesse Zhang for NPR)
NPR
Health

A COVID-19 vaccine may be only 50% effective. Is that good enough?

As scientists race to develop a vaccine that proves "safe and effective," that doesn't mean it will prevent infection in everyone who gets it.

2 years ago

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