September 2020

By Allison Duncan  – September 30, 2020 When COVID-19 tests first appeared at doctors’ offices and health care facilities last spring, they didn’t have the best reputation. People who underwent testing told scary stories of having a long sterile swab shoved up their nose, while others described overrun testing sites with hours-long wait times. Some even […]

Demystifying Coronavirus Tests Coronavirus tests are making headlines, but confusion remains. Different tests detect different things and have different uses. We walk through the two main types of tests related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19: what each test detects, how it detects it and what the test can tell us about current and

Why Are Many Young People Who Never Smoked Getting Lung Cancer? By Bonnie J. Addario, Contributor ; Living leader, Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation 09/09/2015 06:01pm EDT | Updated September 9, 2016 This post was published on the now-closed HuffPost Contributor platform. Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. If you