Sun, Nov 29 2020

Moderna's coronavirus vaccine candidate is 94.5% effective at protecting people against COVID-19, according to the company. The candidate took under a year to develop and test, which is years faster than previous vaccines. The company designed its…

Photo by FilmMagic/FilmMagic via Getty Tony Hsieh, bestselling author and longtime former CEO of ecommerce pioneer Zappos.com, died at age 46 on Friday. His tragic loss — and unusual impact on the tech and startup landscapes for the better…

When Purdue Pharma agreed last month to plead guilty to criminal charges involving OxyContin, the Justice Department noted the role an unidentified consulting company had played in driving sales of the addictive painkiller even as public outrage…

BMJ – Oct 5, 2020

Vitamin D reduces COVID-19; infection; severity; ICU admission and mortality: as clearly evidenced by; immune biology, observational and interventional studies, and wider considerations of; latitude, seasonal UVB exposure, and national…

As mysteriously as it arrived, a metal monolith that was discovered last week by Utah public safety workers is now gone, officials said on Saturday. The three-sided metal structure was removed on Friday evening “by an unknown party”…