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How does COVID-19 affect kids? Science has answers and gaps

What role children play in the coronavirus pandemic is the hot-button question of the summer as kids relish their free time while schools labor over how to resume classes. The Tru...

Mercy hospital to host free Facebook Live discussion on bone health

Mercy Regional Medical Center will host a free discussion about bone health at 6 p.m. Wednesday via Facebook Live. The discussion will feature Mercy Orthopedic Associates Bone Hea...

First COVID-19 vaccine tested in US poised for final testing

The first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday – as the shots are poised to begin key final t...

Virus spread, not politics should guide schools, doctors say

As the Trump administration pushes full steam ahead to force schools to resume in-person education, public health experts warn that a one-size-fits-all reopening could drive infection and de...

‘Desperation science’ slows the hunt for coronavirus drugs

Desperate to solve the deadly conundrum of COVID-19, the world is clamoring for fast answers and solutions from a research system not built for haste. The ironic, and perhaps trag...

Safe injection sites may curb opioid deaths, report suggests

A safe haven in the U.S. where people can give themselves heroin and other drugs has observed more than 10,500 injections over five years and treated 33 overdoses with none proving fatal, re...

Scientists urge WHO to acknowledge virus can spread in air

LONDON – More than 200 scientists have called for the World Health Organization and others to acknowledge that the coronavirus can spread in the air – a change that could alter some of the c...

Little evidence that protests spread coronavirus in U.S.

NEW YORK – There is little evidence that the protests that erupted after George Floyd’s death caused a significant increase in U.S. coronavirus infections, according to public health experts...

Summer may decide fate of leading shots in vaccine race

People on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any shot really works – ...

U.S. officials change virus risk groups, add pregnant women

NEW YORK – The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday revamped its list of which Americans are at higher risk for severe COVID-19 illness, adding pregnant women and removing age alone...

As demand for telehealth skyrockets, Congress considers permanent changes

Medicare recipients used remote technology 11,718% more in first 1½ month of pandemic

Virus cases surging among the young, endangering the elderly

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Coronavirus cases are climbing rapidly among young adults in a number of states where bars, stores and restaurants have reopened – a disturbing generational shift that...
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