Digital Gems

Pfizer and BioNTech are testing a third dose of a Covid vaccine for young children. The third dose is a lower amount than the adult doses.

Omicron will likely become the dominant strain across the majority of the US by Christmas but Prizer's new Covid pill offers a glimmer of hope in staving off severe illness.

2021 Google searches revealed our interest in alternative assets like cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and persistent economic insecurity, evidenced by questions about stimulus checks and student loan forgiveness. It also showed the cultural rift between millennials and Gen Z cropped up in queries about hair parts and jeans, as did other social media trend, like how to make TikTok pasta or Squid Game cookies. When Covid-19 vaccines became widely available, Americans tried figure out how to be a normal person again, like what kind of pants to wear and if you could wear sweatpants.

The Wright brothers were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

OpenAI has released new fine-tuning features for its GPT-3 natural language model. The new tools enable developers to customize GPT-3,..

Many of us are taught that if we work hard enough we’ll be able to get over our losses. The social scientist Pauline Boss sees it differently.

The human papillomavirus vaccine can prevent six potentially lethal malignancies, but inoculation is meeting with rising resistance from parents.

A bipartisan group led by two former governors is urging President Biden to help an estimated 167,000 children who have lost parents or caregivers.

Bells, bows and gifts: For some people, these images will be sharp reminders of distance between them and important family members.

An interview with Priya Fielding-Singh, the author of “How the Other Half Eats.”

The Turkish lira has fallen another 12% relative to the dollar, bringing its plunge to about 50% since rate cuts began in September. Erdoğan yesterday announced he's raising Turkey's minimum wage by an eye-popping 50%— a move that could also stoke further inflation which remains over 21%.

The typical patient is already a mother; is poor; is unmarried and in her late 20s; and has some college education.

Science can find a cure for our diseases, but not for our societal ills.

How could that change our understanding about, for starters, chronic disease, aging and obesity?

The long read: Medical research and practice have long assumed a narrow definition of the ‘default’ human, badly compromising the care of anyone outside that category. How can this be fixed?

Labels like "nonessential" are getting in the way of urgent treatments and surgeries. There’s a better way.

In Tennessee, where the governor allows families to ignore school mask mandates, some parents are making excruciating calculations each morning about whether to send their children to school.

A new CDC study found that the percentage of obese children and teens increased to 22%, compared to 19% before the pandemic. It also found that expected annual weight gain ranged from 5 to 15 pounds.

Driving kills as many Americans each year as guns do. Experts say that’s preventable.

The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.

“Our state literally shrunk in 2020,” said Dr. Scott Harris, the state’s health officer.

This report examines attitudes and views of parents as children head back to school amidst the rise in COVID-19 cases due to the delta variant. Nearly half of parents of children ages 12-17, who ar…

Despite the immigrant mortality advantage and the increasing share of the population born abroad, relatively little is known about how immigration has…