Could a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 virus be in our near future?

Kudos to Decisions in Dentistry and especially Executive Editor Kristen Machado for the daily COVID-19 enewsletters that have been a great source of information.

Universally and individually, we are trapped between the proponents of reopening society for economic reasons and those who say we must wait for answers about how best to reduce mortality and morbidity from COVID-19.

 The coronavirus has won the first battle, but not the war.  

Recently, The Wall Street Journal reported on an agreement between Google and the faith-based health care organization Ascension, a Catholic hospital network. The agreement gives the company access to tens of millions of personal health…

An article in The New York Times highlights a sea change in medical tourism: It has now been approved by some insurance plans.

Information in this space is normally drawn from multiple sources; however, after reading Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban I decided to make an exception.

There is a new type of antibiotic resistance, and it comes from an unexpected source.

There is a rash of data theft. The New York Times detailed one such incident involving the hijacking of systems data and more than 100 years of municipal records from a Florida city.

Used in therapy for more than 100 years in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, bacteriophages are viruses that parasitize a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing.