Scientific American
  • Sign In
  • Newsletters
  • Sign In
<  Back to Archive
SA Health & Medicine Vol 4 Issue 2

Health & Medicine

April 2022

Volume 4, Issue 2

You are currently logged out. Please log in to download the issue PDF.

Features

Preparing for the Next Plague
Pharmaceuticals

Preparing for the Next Plague

SARS-CoV-2 adds impetus to the race for broad-spectrum countermeasures against future global infectious scourges

By Laura DeFrancesco and Nature Biotechnology
What Humanity Should Eat to Stay Healthy and Save the Planet
Public Health

What Humanity Should Eat to Stay Healthy and Save the Planet

What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world

By Gayathri Vaidyanathan and Nature magazine
People Have Been Having Less Sex--whether They're Teenagers or 40-Somethings
Sexuality

People Have Been Having Less Sex--whether They're Teenagers or 40-Somethings

Among the young, social media, gaming and “rough sex” may contribute to this trend

By Gary Stix and Emily Willingham
These Are the Latest COVID Treatments
Health Care

These Are the Latest COVID Treatments

But shortages mean that new antivirals and other drugs may be hard to come by

By Robin Lloyd and Esther Landhuis

Departments

From the Editor
Hard-Won Pandemic Gains
News
Epstein-Barr Virus Found to Trigger Multiple Sclerosis
COVID Smell Loss and Long COVID Linked to Inflammation
Pig Kidneys Transplanted to Human in Milestone Experiment
Synthetic Enamel Could Make Teeth Stronger and Smarter
These Eye Drops Could Replace Your Reading Glasses
Forum
There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID
Opinion
Some COVID Patients Need Amputations to Survive
A $1-Billion Boost to the NCI Will Help Us Beat Cancer
  • Return & Refund Policy
  • About
  • Press Room
  • FAQs
  • Contact Us
  • Site Map
  • Advertise
  • SA Custom Media
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • California Consumer Privacy Statement
  • Use of cookies/Do not sell my data
  • International Editions

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us). Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to our readers.

© 2023 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, A DIVISION OF SPRINGER NATURE AMERICA, INC.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.