Coronavirus Covid-19

Infections are increasing, but experts have detected no greater severity in symptoms or resistance to vaccines in the most recent strains circulating worldwide

The Food and Drug Administration decision opens the newest shots from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most Americans even if they’ve never had a coronavirus vaccination

Doctors hope enough people get vaccinated to help avert another ‘tripledemic’ like last year when hospitals were overwhelmed with an early flu season, an onslaught of RSV and yet another winter coronavirus surge

It also immediately drew ire from the nursing home industry, which said it amounted to a mandate that couldn’t be met

The move comes in response to finding that more than $830 million in Covid-19 emergency aid had been stolen following a nationwide operation conducted by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies

The American Rescue Plan, passed two years ago, provided $350 billion of flexible aid to be divided among thousands of governments. Those governments had spent just 43% of that money as of this spring

The measure aims to control the rising prices of this essential dietary staple for the country’s low-income population

Up to a year after a bout of COVID-19, some people can develop problems ranging from blood clots to irregular heartbeats to a heart attack. It’s not clear why and doctors still are grappling with how to help

Just over 9,000 people were admitted to the hospital in the week ending July 29, which was up by about 12% from the previous week

Since 2020, Netflix, Amazon, and HBO have increased filming in the South American country, which avoided shutting down during the coronavirus pandemic

Dr. López-Gatell admits that the number of infections in the country has increased — as the National Autonomous University of Mexico has pointed out — but rules out the massive use of face masks

The National Institutes of Health is leading the studies, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition that afflicts millions

The myth of the midlife crisis remains very much alive in the collective imagination, but sociologists and historians question whether it is still relevant

The author of ‘Lucy by the Sea’ describes what drives her writing: ‘I have always wanted to know what it feels like to be another person’

Cohen claimed in his lawsuit that the Trump Organization had promised to pay his legal expenses and did so for a time, footing more than $1.7 million in legal fees

The University of Barcelona professor and director of the eating disorders unit at Bellvitge Hospital discusses the importance of talking about mental health in treating eating disorders (ED) and obesity

Cases of disease linked to mosquitos, ticks, and fleas tripled in the U.S. between 2004 and 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control

The Democratic presidential candidate was filmed falsely suggesting Covid-19 could have been ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people

US intelligence is divided between the two hypotheses but have ruled out the virus being created as a biological weapon

The Food and Drug Administration’s scientific advisers said the next round of shots in the U.S. should only include protection against the newest variants that are now dominant worldwide

The FAO deputy director and regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean analyzes the perfect storm of conflict, climate, post-pandemic inflation, and inequality that is driving world hunger

A committee of lawmakers found Johnson’s actions were such a flagrant violation of the rules that they warranted a 90-day suspension from Parliament

A study suggests that immunologic resilience, the body’s ability to restore its immune functions and control inflammation, may influence the response to infections and other ailments

The GPS tracking of thousands of mammals confirmed that they moved more than usual, but only where strict confinement was applied over long distances

The allegations were made this month by the United States’ ambassador to South Africa, who said he was sure that weapons and ammunition were loaded onto the Russian-flagged cargo ship when it docked at the Simon’s Town naval base near Cape Town

Despite the progress, scientists still don’t know what causes it, why it only strikes some people, how to treat it -– or even how to best diagnose it. Better defining the condition is key for research to get those answers

Upon measuring the happiness of crew members, it has been found that spirits have fallen in the first quarter of 2023