Latest by Malcolm Ritter
Published on September 29, 2020 - Page 9
NEW YORK — At a University of Maryland lab, people infected with the new coronavirus take turns sitting in a chair and putting their faces into the...
Published on March 31, 2020 - Page 6
NEW YORK — At first, Jonathon Seidl wasn’t worried about the coronavirus despite his anxiety disorder. But that changed. The 33-year-old digital...
Published on March 24, 2020 - Page 8
NEW YORK — A loss of smell or taste might be an early sign of infection with the pandemic virus, say medical experts who cite reports from several...
Published on July 22, 2019 - Page 9
NEW YORK — Call them zombie cells — they refuse to die. As they build up in your body, studies suggest, they promote aging and the conditions that...
Published on June 21, 2019 - Page 1
NEW YORK — People are more likely to return a lost wallet if it contains money — and the more cash, the better. That’s the surprising conclusion...
Published on April 15, 2019 - Page 7
NEW YORK — Scientists report that a fish can pass a standard test of recognizing itself in a mirror — and they raise a question about what that means...
Published on April 9, 2019 - Page 5
NEW YORK — Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed like people in...
Published on April 6, 2019 - Page 20
NEW YORK — Hey Kitty! Yes, you. A new study suggests household cats can respond to the sound of their own names. No surprise to you or most cat...
Published on October 29, 2018 - Page 8
NEW YORK — Scientists say they’ve located the first well-documented genetic glitch that increases a man’s risk of impotence, a step that might...
Published on August 14, 2018 - Page 9
NEW YORK — Last year, Katie Burns got a phone call that shows what can happen in medicine when information runs ahead of knowledge. Burns learned...