
Grace Wade
Health Reporter at New Scientist
Health reporter @newscientist covering psychedelics, substance use and chronic disease 🕵️♀️📝🦠 (she/her) Reach me at grace.wade(at)newscientist(.)com
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3 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | Grace Wade
One of the top vaccine experts at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, resigned on 4 June – a week after Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that covid-19 vaccines would no longer be recommended for most children and pregnancies. The announcement set off several days of confusion around who will have access to covid-19 vaccines in the US going forward.
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newscientist.com | Grace Wade
The amino acid taurine was once thought to decline with age, and animal research suggested that taurine supplements could delay ageing. But a new study shows that the decline doesn’t happen consistently. In fact, taurine levels tend to increase in people over time, suggesting that low levels of the nutrient aren’t a driver of ageing.
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newscientist.com | Grace Wade
I never thought much about my blood pressure, but recently my doctor suggested I start monitoring it more closely due to some of the medications I take. While it is still well within the normal range, it has slowly crept up, making me wonder what I can do to keep it in check. After all, high blood pressure is one of the most common health problems, affecting an estimated 1.28 billion adults. Left unmanaged, it raises the risk of various conditions, such as heart attack and stroke. Exercise…
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newscientist.com | Grace Wade
An antibody treatment for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) appears to be more effective at protecting infants from severe illness than vaccination during pregnancy. About 100,000 children worldwide under the age of 5 die from RSV each year. Currently, there are only two ways to immunise infants against the virus. The first is a vaccine given during pregnancy, which passes antibodies to the fetus and protects babies for the first six months of life. The second is a one-time antibody injection,…
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newscientist.com | Grace Wade
Most of us would rather not dwell for too long on the subject of mucus. We know it is there, quietly lubricating our insides and presumably doing vital work. It is only when we have a cold that we give it any particular attention – and even then, it is an unpleasant nuisance, something to be wiped away as discretely as possible and chucked in the bin. Yet new research is revealing just how marvellous mucus is.
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Last week, RFK Jr announced the CDC would stop reccomending covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnancies. In practice, not much has changed when it comes to covid-19 vaccine access in the US – but the news still sets a troubling precedent. https://t.co/Ynm6t3FoI3

RT @KevinJTraceyMD: Big thank you to @grace_wade_ for the wonderful article! I’m so grateful for your thoughtful words and perspectives on…

RT @benryanwriter: I missed this one, but one more time for the uninformed people in the back: The majority of HIV transmission in sub-Sah…