Even Mild COVID Can Increase the Risk of Heart Problems

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March 16, 2022

Epidemiology Even Mild COVID Can Increase the Risk of Heart Problems Scientists are just starting to unravel the disease's long-term cardiac effects By Mariana Lenharo

Health Care Gun Violence Is an Epidemic; Health Systems Must Step Up There are tools that hospitals can use to reduce the number of firearm injuries that come through the doors. We are piloting one such project By Michael Dowling,Chethan Sathya

Climate Change War in Ukraine and Climate Change Could Combine to Create a Food Crisis Russia's invasion is halting the delivery of wheat to areas suffering from drought and other climate impacts By Sara Schonhardt,Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Education To Keep Students in STEM fields, Let's Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes Reimagining calculus has changed several schools' success rates. Here's how By Pamela Burdman

Health Care Pandemic-Era Research Will Pay Off for Years The COVID research infrastructure will help fight all sorts of pathogens By Britt Glaunsinger

Inequality U.S. Records Reveal Bias against Muslim and Black Citizenship Applicants The likelihood of attending a naturalization ceremony is lower for Black people, men and people from Muslim-majority countries By Emily Willingham

Paleontology Newly Discovered Saber-Tooth Predator Shows How Hypercarnivores Evolved A well-preserved fossil introduces a new species that lived in what is now California around 42 million years ago By Raegan Scharfetter

Artificial Intelligence Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake? New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.  By Sarah Vitak | 11:50

Epidemiology People, Not Science, Decide When a Pandemic Is Over Historians of the 1918 influenza pandemic discuss lessons for what the future of COVID might look like By Tanya Lewis

Public Health Contagions Worse Than COVID Will Prevail If Neglect of Global Public Health Continues Health security is as important to a nation as a standing army By The Editors

Culture Popular Health Claims, Such as a Woman's Fertility Dropping at Age 30, Are Wildly Overblown People should be skeptical of big claims based on only one study and dig a little deeper By Naomi Oreskes

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 3

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FROM THE ARCHIVE COVID's Cardiac Connection Coronavirus infections might cause lasting harm to the heart even in those who have never had symptoms By Elie Dolgin | November 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "People think of cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes as risk factors for heart problems. We need to add COVID-19 to that list." Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research and development at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System

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