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Image copyright SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A new effort is underway to understand how the immune system responds to coronavirus. Scientists from 17 research centers in the UK are trying to answer questions, such as how long does immunity last and why the severity of illness varies so much. The new …

Sleeping too long during the day can make you more likely to get heart disease or die young, according to scientists. In bad news for siesta lovers, researchers found that sleeping an hour or more every day can increase the risk of prematurity or illness by a third. Afternoon sleep …

Actor Sidney Noel Rideau, better known to generations of New Orleanians as Dr. Morgus the Magnificent, a well-meaning mad scientist who presides over television horror films, died Thursday morning of natural causes in Christwood Retirement Community in Covington, according to his daughter Natalie Rideau. He was 90 years old. Sidney …

President Donald Trump has not officially given his support (“Is this something that people are talking about very strongly? We will see it. We will see,” he told a reporter last week.) Plain old oleandrin, the non-proprietary botanical product, first appeared in the medical literature in 1949 with a study …

A study aimed at tracking the coronavirus in Oregon and understanding its effects on minorities is now dead because Oregon Health & Science University, which is leading the study, failed to ensure that enough minorities they would sign up to participate. The Key to Oregon study, which projected to cost …