Tanya Lewis
Senior Editor, Health and Medicine at Scientific American
Senior Editor, Health and Medicine @SciAm. No longer active on this site. On Bluesky @tanyalewis.bsky.social
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2 months ago |
scientificamerican.com | Tanya Lewis
Roughly 70 percent of pregnant people experience morning sickness: bouts of nausea or vomiting, or both, that put them off their food and send them running for the toilet. Despite its name, the miserable condition can strike at any time of day—or last all day. It usually subsides after the first trimester, though it can sometimes linger throughout an entire pregnancy.
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2 months ago |
scientificamerican.com | Tanya Lewis
After Harvard University pushed back against the Trump administration’s attempts to force the school to comply with sweeping political demands yesterday, the White House announced it would freeze more than $2.2 billion in Harvard’s funding—and threatened the university’s tax-exempt status.
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2 months ago |
scientificamerican.com | Tanya Lewis
There’s a common perception in the U.S. that taking public transit is dangerous. Headlines blare gruesome reports of people getting pushed in front of subway trains or attacked by strangers, stoking fear and anxiety.
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2 months ago |
scientificamerican.com | Tanya Lewis
Two infants have died of whooping cough in Louisiana in the past six months, according to the surgeon general of the state’s health department. The deaths from this vaccine-preventable illness are the first to occur in Louisiana since 2018. There have been 110 cases of whooping cough in the state so far this year, compared with 154 cases in all of last year, CNN reported. Cases have been rising throughout the U.S. after they dropped dramatically during the COVID pandemic.
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Mar 20, 2025 |
scientificamerican.com | Tanya Lewis
Earlier this week the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Food and Drug Administration announced a new initiative aimed at improving the safety and quality of infant formula. Dubbed Operation Stork Speed—likely a reference to the first Trump administration’s COVID vaccine program Operation Warp Speed—the program aims to increase testing for heavy metals and other contaminants.
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RT @CAPublicHealth: CDPH reports new possible human cases of bird flu among Central Valley individuals. All cases had contact with infected…
RT @DrEricDing: Here is what a 15 foot hurricane storm surge looks like folks. https://t.co/XVQmw5XAbu
Since I published my story yesterday about a health care worker exposed to the H5N1 patient in Missouri yesterday, four more workers were found to have had respiratory symptoms. Not confirmed bird flu but serology tests are being done. https://t.co/Qfa1E2pEiC