Health
Covid-19 wasn’t the only medical story this year. Here’s what you missed in 2020. – NBC News
Coronavirus wasn’t the only health story in 2020. There were many advances in medicine, including weekly insulin for diabetes, CRISPR for sickle cell disease, and…
One health story dominated headlines for virtually all of 2020: the coronavirus pandemic.
But while Covid-19 did slow down medical research in other areas, the science didn’t stop. Researchers rolled out new ways to cope with common diseases, and even a treatment for another feared virus.
Here are the accomplishments that may have flown under the public’s radar in 2020.
A treatment for Ebola
Six years ago, the world had its eyes on a different virus: Ebola, in West Africa. In October, the Food and…
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