General Science
July 17, 2025
The Trump administration is revoking billions of dollars of NIH grants and drastically reducing funding at CDC, FDA, and EPA.…
, , , ,February 28, 2025
Bird flu has spread to cows and infected some humans. Fear of human-to-human transmission is real, though has not yet…
, , , ,June 30, 2024
Radon gas exposure threatens many more homes in Massachusetts than we had realized. Detection and mitigation are not difficult.
, ,February 7, 2021
Covid-19 vaccines began last week for everyone over 75 in Massachusetts. The state distribution program includes websites to sign up,…
, , , , , ,January 4, 2021
We use available state Covid-19 infection rates and other published data together with the binomial distribution to calculate the risk…
, , , , ,January 3, 2021
Two monoclonal antibody treatments are conditionally approved by the FDA, seem to substantially help moderately severe cases of Covid-19, and…
, , , , , ,October 12, 2020
We provide multiple brief updates about the state of the Covid-19 pandemic, the vaccines, the treatments or lack thereof, how…
, , , , , ,April 27, 2020
I explain multiple and sometimes complex issues with the Covid-19 epidemic, starting with where we are in the infection epidemiology…
, , , , ,April 9, 2020
The next six weeks will be risky for all of us as the Covid-19 epidemic continues to extend its reach.…
, , , , ,March 28, 2020
Today marked beginning of the third week of our collective quarantines. Our practice has had just several possible or likely…
, , , , ,September 20, 2019
NDMA now contaminates ranitidine (Zantac), a common OTC antacid tablet. This is the same chemical that contaminated drugs for blood…
, , ,September 20, 2019
Recent deaths from lung failure related to using vaporized nicotine or marijuana are of great concern. Do not use "vaping"…
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