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Reopening could require thousands more public health workers

SEATTLE – Before stay-at-home orders are lifted, the nation’s public health agencies want to be ready to douse any new sparks of coronavirus infection – a task they say could require tens of...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Some people turn to herbal medicine to fight virus without proof

NEW DELHI – With no approved drugs for the new coronavirus, some people are turning to alternative medicines, often with governments promoting them. This is most evident in India ...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Search for a COVID-19 vaccine heats up in China, U.S.

WASHINGTON – Three potential COVID-19 vaccines are making fast progress in early-stage testing in volunteers in China and the U.S., but it’s still a long road to prove if they’ll really work...

DATE: Apr 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Nurses weigh their principles versus safety in virus fight

Paramedics rushed another critical COVID-19 patient into the emergency room, and Chicago nurse Cynthia Riemer felt her adrenaline kick in. “Your heart starts racing,” she said. “Y...

DATE: Apr 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Second U.S. study for COVID-19 vaccine uses skin-deep shots

WASHINGTON – U.S. researchers have opened another safety test of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, this one using a skin-deep shot instead of the usual deeper jab. The pinch shoul...

DATE: Apr 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Virus is mostly mild and rarely fatal for U.S. kids, data show

The first national data on COVID-19 in U.S. children suggest that while the illness usually isn’t severe in kids, some do get sick enough to require hospital treatment. The Center...

DATE: Apr 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

What to know about malaria drug and coronavirus treatment

Some politicians and doctors are sparring over whether to use hydroxychloroquine against the new coronavirus, with many of scientists saying the evidence is too thin to recommend it now. ...

DATE: Apr 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

No COVID-19 testing at home yet but quicker options coming

WASHINGTON – Home testing for the new coronavirus may sound like a good idea, but U.S. regulators say it’s still too risky. They’ve stopped companies that quickly launched home-te...

DATE: Apr 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Age is not the only risk for severe coronavirus disease

WASHINGTON – Older people remain most at risk of dying as the new coronavirus continues its rampage around the globe, but they’re far from the only ones vulnerable. One of many mysteries: Me...

DATE: Mar 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

How would overwhelmed hospitals decide who to treat first?

NEW YORK – A nurse with asthma, a grandfather with cancer and a homeless man with no known family are wracked with coronavirus-induced fevers. They are struggling to breathe, and a ventilato...

DATE: Mar 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

For seniors, isolation changes life in varied, nuanced ways

One remembers the polio epidemic and the hardships of World War II. One is stoic about it all – because, he says, he’s already “here past the welcome.” A third, old enough to remember the af...

DATE: Mar 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

For nursing homes, symptoms aren’t enough to tell who’s sick

SEATTLE – An investigation at a Seattle-area nursing home concluded that symptoms aren’t enough to identify who is infected once the coronavirus enters a long-term care facility. ...

DATE: Mar 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health