Ellie Kincaid
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New York, NY, United States
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COVID-19 Update: Remdesivir Mixed Results, Studying Asymptomatics
These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today. → Read More
Oncologist Confidential: I Pray With My Patients
'It has been, universally, very uplifting for the patient, their family, and me. It's such a special thing to be able to do.' → Read More
'Uber of Interventional Cardiology' Pushes Stents Over Surgery
A physician-driven website touts stenting as a treatment for patients who have been told they need open heart surgery. A surgeon calls it 'trolling for patients.' → Read More
Using ASCO's Clinical Database for Commercial Research Raises Questions
Ethicists have expressed concern that a CancerLinQ database of deidentified patient medical records is being monetized for research without asking for informed consent. → Read More
Global Warming Might Be Especially Dangerous for Pregnant Women
Scientists are concerned that heat waves could be linked to more premature births and stillbirths. → Read More
How I will try to convince myself (and you) to compost »
How I will try to convince myself (and you) to compost But how I’ll fail anyway It’s not pretty, but we need to suck it up and compost. [Image credit: Philip Cohen via Flickr | CC BY 2.0] For my grandmother in east Tennessee, keeping her food waste out of a landfill is easy. She collects whatever watermelon rinds, apple peelings and bell pepper tops we’ve generated in the course of a day in a… → Read More
New York rowers look to the Paralympics »
It wasn’t until 2008, in Beijing, that rowing was added as an event at the Paralympics. Rowers compete in one of three categories, depending on whether they row with their whole bodies (as a visually impaired athlete would), with their upper bodies and arms, or just their arms and shoulders. Whatever the needs of the rowers, their boats and equipment are modified to best support their strokes.… → Read More
VIDEO: Saving Guam’s Micronesian kingfishers from extinction »
In the late 1980s, 29 of the last wild Micronesian kingfishers on Guam were brought to the Philadelphia Zoo to start a captive breeding program. Invasive brown tree snakes had almost eradicated the bird, known as the “sihek” in Guam’s Chamorro language, from the island. Today, after decades of care and research, the population has rebounded to over 150 birds living in American zoos and a captive… → Read More
The man-made flood »
When the Rev. James Perkins heard the Meramec River was rising toward his church in December of 2015, he and some volunteers loaded the church’s communion table and piano into a trailer and got them to safety. They’d planned to come back for the drum set, but the river rose too quickly. Four months after the flood, Perkins showed me just how high the river rose: the upper edge of the newly… → Read More
From the field to the classroom »
In September 2015, a team of scientists announced that they had found a new human species. Their find included 1,550 fossils from at least 15 individuals with a mysterious combination of primitive and modern physical features. The team, led by Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand, named the new species Homo naledi, after the cave system in South Africa where they found the remains.… → Read More
Coming back from captivity »
The last wild Guam Micronesian kingfishers were hustled off their remote Pacific island home more than 30 years ago, when they were airlifted to American zoos after invasive brown tree snakes drove them to the brink of extinction. While the birds are closer than ever to returning to Guam’s forests, the snakes that stripped Guam of much of its bird life remain a formidable obstacle. The U.S. Fish… → Read More
Don't believe your ears »
For howler monkeys, an evolutionary surprise: Males with fiercer calls have smaller testicles → Read More
The science behind the recent surge in twins and triplets
The multiple birth rate has increased dramatically since 1980. → Read More
Scientists are trying to cure the most common cause of blindness — with eye drops
If it works, the eye drops could one day replace surgery. → Read More
This cutting-edge research is a huge step in the war against the dangerous mysteries of the brain
The more we learn about how the brain works, the more likely we'll be able to fix it when stuff goes haywire. → Read More
An epiphany at a rock concert helped a sick man invent a device to help himself breathe easier
He sat close to a large speaker and coughed so much he had to leave early. → Read More
Scientists just took a major step forward in understanding Alzheimer's
A new study let them track the disease like they've never been able to before. → Read More
A promising futuristic device is already starting to change medicine
The way new drugs are tested could become completely different. → Read More
Children with older parents may have a surprising leg up
There's a small but significant difference associated with having kids later. → Read More
Genetic testing is taking medicine to an all new extreme
It's preventative medicine like we've never been able to do it before. → Read More