Americans now have a way to anonymously report their at-home COVID-19 test results to health authorities: a new website from the National Institutes of Health, announced this week. Officials hope results collected through the new site — makemytestcount.org — will fill some of the gap in data left after many people turned to in-home COVID-19 … Read more
Boston University refutes report that lab created dangerous COVID strain Boston University refutes report that lab created dangerous COVID strain 03:02 The National Institutes of Health is now examining whether experiments performed at Boston University should have triggered a federal review, the agency says, after scientists at the school tested strains they created of the … Read more
A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Covid-19 vaccination is linked to a slight increase in the length of a women’s menstrual cycle, delaying the beginning … Read more
It’s been one of the biggest mysteries of the COVID-19 pandemic: Why do some people experience at-times debilitating symptoms that linger for months after the initial infection came and went? And what can be done to help those suffering from “long COVID”? The National Institutes of Health is now hoping to launch its first big clinical … Read more