Health researchers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo interview people as part of their contact tracing, seeking to find those who came into contact with people infected with Ebola. Michel Lunanga/Getty Images hide title toggle title Michel Lunanga/Getty Images The key to ending any infectious disease outbreak, especially one for which there is no
For most people, knowledge of what the work life of healthcare workers is like comes primarily from two limited points of view: watching television shows and experiencing care for their own patients. The same is true even for many people who eventually become doctors and nurses, as Grace Farris reminds us at the beginning of
A 4-month-old child comes to the clinic with fever and nasal congestion. Vyonne Njeri thinks it’s just a cold. Then a yellow box appears on your computer telling you to check your heart, because your heart rate is elevated. Njeri is a registered clinical officer in Nairobi, Kenya; she sees patients alone like a nurse
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will vote on recommendations for seven popular peptides. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images hide title toggle title Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images For the latest stories on the science of healthy living, subscribe to NPR health bulletin. A number of experimental peptide therapies are under scrutiny today in what marks the beginning
Marina Demeshko/iStockphoto/Getty Images seven years ago, He New Yorker Copywriter Jia Tolentino is widely credited with coining the term “Instagram face” to describe a beauty standard she noticed emerging on social media among white female influencers. “The face looked like the beauty filters that Snapchat and Instagram provided to lift the cheeks, plump the lips,
Elizabeth Murchison, a professor at the University of Cambridge, and Peter Emerson of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife collect catfish for testing in Newport, VT. Emerson was one of the researchers who published a new article in the journal. Nature describing the first known transmissible cancer in fish. Joshua Brown/University of Vermont hide
