Knowable Magazine

• COVID, RSV and the Flu: A Case of Viral Interference? The 'tripledemic' unfolding this winter is one of several odd trends among respiratory virus infections these last years. Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
  Knowable Magazine, January 13, 2023
• Handing the Surgeon's Scalpel to a Robot After decades of merely assisting doctors, are sophisticated machines ready to take charge?
  Knowable Magazine, September 14, 2022
• She Saw the Obesity Epidemic Coming. Then Came Controversy. Katherine Flegal was a scientist who found herself crunching numbers for the government, until one day her analyses set off a firestorm. What does she make of her decades as a woman in public health research?
  Knowable Magazine, September 12, 2022
• Vaccinating the World Against COVID-19 Lower-income countries haven’t gotten an equal share of lifesaving coronavirus vaccines. Older, more familiar vaccine technologies may hold the key to more equitable use.
  Knowable Magazine, April 19, 2022
• The First Malaria Vaccine Is a Leap Forward. We Can't Stop Now. Next-generation vaccines, and a lot more money, are needed now to crack the stalemate in the fight against malaria.
  Knowable Magazine, April 18, 2022
• Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases Are on the Rise. But Why? The complex interplay of ticks, their habitats and hosts — along with changes in land use and climate — may be enabling the spread of the pathogens they carry.
  Knowable Magazine, February 04, 2022
• New Antifungal Medications Are Sorely Needed Better treatment for Candida auris, Aspergillus and other dangerous fungal pathogens is slow to come, even as rates of drug resistance rise. New therapies are in the pipeline, and hospital practices can help.
  Knowable Magazine, January 19, 2022
• The Vicious Cycle of Food and Sleep More than a third of Americans don't log enough hours in bed, provoking serious impacts on their health. Diet is an important and underrecognized reason.
  Knowable Magazine, January 03, 2022
• Searching for a Better Treatment for Eating Disorders Scientists are seeking new innovations to help people grappling with the pervasive and often-hidden problems of anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating.
  Knowable Magazine, December 17, 2021
• Question the 'Lab Leak' Theory. But Don't Call It a Conspiracy. If there's one thing the pandemic has taught us, labels get in the way of facts and make the truth that much harder to find.
  Knowable Magazine, November 29, 2021
• What Does It Mean to Have Prediabetes? It's complicated: Prediabetes has multiple definitions and there may be different subtypes. But for many people who develop it, changes in lifestyle drastically lower the risk of progressing to diabetes.
  Knowable Magazine, November 15, 2021
• Let's Change How We Pay for Hospitals Many health facilities were already in fiscal straits before COVID-19 — except in Maryland. The state's innovative and sound approach could be the answer to rescuing systems nationwide.
  Knowable Magazine, November 02, 2021
• Why We Are Developing a Patent-Free COVID Antiviral Therapy During global health crises such as pandemics, drug discovery should be publicly funded and open, with no research secrets locked away.
  Knowable Magazine, September 29, 2021
• To Understand Airborne Transmission of Disease, Follow the Flow Viruses and bacteria travel in fluids, such as the air we breathe. Studying exhalations, toilet flushes, and raindrops can sharpen the big-picture view of how to prevent infections.
  Knowable Magazine, September 07, 2021
• Why Don't Kids Tend To Get as Sick From COVID-19? Some children have been hospitalized and some have died, but at a tiny fraction of the adult rate. As children head back to school, scientists are hoping that research will provide answers.
  Knowable Magazine, September 03, 2021
• What Will History Say About COVID? All of us are curators now, and what we preserve — as well as what we don't — will write the pandemic story.
  Knowable Magazine, August 02, 2021
• What Sweden's COVID Failure Tells Us About Ageism Experts say that growing age discrimination in the West is a result of policies that far predate the pandemic.
  Knowable Magazine, July 08, 2021
• Heads Up! The Cardiovascular Secrets of Giraffes Because of their height, giraffes require scarily high blood pressures — yet they escape the massive health problems that plague people with hypertension. Can clinicians learn from these animals?
  Knowable Magazine, May 26, 2021
• Four Ways HIV Activists Have Saved Lives During COVID We owe these early fighters a debt of gratitude for transforming our response to public health crises.
  Knowable Magazine, April 15, 2021
• Know the Enemy: Why Genetic Sequencing Is Key to Tracking COVID The US effort to analyze viral genomes, slow to start, is now picking up speed.
  Knowable Magazine, April 14, 2021