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Pandemic took a toll on teen mental health, study says

NEW YORK – More than 4 in 10 U.S. high school students said they felt persistently sad or hopeless during the pandemic, according to government findings released Thursday. Several medical g...

DATE: Apr 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health

Booster shots needed against omicron, CDC studies show

NEW YORK (AP) — Three studies released Friday offered more evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are standing up to the omicron variant, at least among people who received booster shots.

DATE: Jan 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health

CDC encourages more Americans to consider N95 masks

NEW YORK – U.S. health officials on Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by health-care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Those kinds of m...

DATE: Jan 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health

CDC recommends shorter COVID-19 isolation, quarantine for all

NEW YORK – U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need ...

DATE: Dec 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

2021 on track to surpass last year as nation&#39;s deadliest

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials say 2021 is shaping up to be even deadlier than last year.

DATE: Dec 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. sets shorter COVID-19 isolation rules for health workers

NEW YORK – Worried that a new COVID-19 wave could overwhelm understaffed U.S. hospitals, federal officials on Thursday loosened rules that call on health care workers to stay out of work for...

DATE: Dec 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Omicron sweeps across nation, now 73% of new COVID-19 cases

NEW YORK – Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials ...

DATE: Dec 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. overdose deaths topped 100,000 in one year, officials say

NEW YORK – An estimated 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in one year, a never-before-seen milestone that health officials say is tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and a more dangerous dr...

DATE: Nov 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Study: Childhood obesity in U.S. accelerated during pandemic

NEW YORK – A new study ties the COVID-19 pandemic to an “alarming” increase in obesity in U.S. children and teenagers. Childhood obesity has been increasing for decades, but the new work su...

DATE: Sep 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest drop since WWII

NEW YORK – U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday. The decrease for both Black Americ...

DATE: Jul 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

US overdose deaths hit record 93,000 in pandemic last year

NEW YORK – Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,...

DATE: Jul 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Experts: Benefits of COVID vaccine outweigh small heart risk

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal officials said Wednesday they plan to strengthen cautions about a rare side effect of some COVID-19 vaccines — chest pain and heart inflammation, mostly among teenagers and young adults.

DATE: Jun 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health