How To Treat COVID at Home

Trouble viewing? View in your browser. View all Scientific American publications.

    

May 13, 2022

Medicine How To Treat COVID at Home Some over-the-counter medications can help symptoms, and there are ways to ease isolation By Lydia Denworth

Privacy Yes, Phones Can Reveal if Someone Gets an Abortion To protect personal information from companies that sell data, some individuals are relying on privacy guides instead of government regulation or industry transparency By Sophie Bushwick

Reproduction To Better Understand Women's Health, We Need to Destigmatize Menstrual Blood Diseases such as endometriosis would have a cure if we could talk about them and study them without shame By Christine N. Metz

Epidemiology What One Million COVID Dead Mean for the U.S.'s Future The country has reached an unthinkably grim milestone. Nearly 200,000 children have lost parents, many more elderly have been killed, and family well-being has been ripped apart By Melody Schreiber

Black Holes The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way's Heart Has Been Revealed The historic image of Sagittarius A* is the culmination of a decades-long astronomical quest—and a crucial step toward a new understanding of black holes, gravity and spacetime By Seth Fletcher

Black Holes The Black Hole in the Middle of our Galaxy Looks like This It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way. By Seth Fletcher,Jason Drakeford,Tulika Bose,Jeffery DelViscio

Reproduction How Abortion Restrictions Could Affect Care for Miscarriages The drugs and procedures used to terminate a pregnancy are the same ones used to treat patients for early pregnancy loss or ectopic pregnancies By Charlotte Huff,Kaiser Health News

Sex & Gender What the Science on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Kids Really Shows Laws that ban gender-affirming treatment ignore the wealth of research demonstrating its benefits for trans people's health By Heather Boerner

Psychology From Designing a House to Editing Text, Sometimes Less Is More Our minds tend to create new stuff by piling on to what's already there, a practice that narrows our thinking By Leidy Klotz

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 31, Issue 2s

FROM THE ARCHIVE The Smartest Way to Use Rapid At-Home COVID Tests The self-administered tests are sold over the counter, holding out the promise of safer gatherings. But interpreting results requires savvy By Tara Santora | October 2021

LATEST ISSUES

Questions?   Comments?

Download the Scientific American App

To view this email as a web page, go here. You received this email because you opted-in to receive email from Scientific American. To ensure delivery please add news@email.scientificamerican.com to your address book. Unsubscribe     Manage Email Preferences     Privacy Policy     Contact Us