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FDA Finds Contamination in Several Brands of Diabetes Drug
U.S. health regulators are telling five drugmakers to recall their versions of a widely used diabetes ...
What You Need to Know About the Virus Outbreak
Roughly 2.1 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, a sign companies are still ...
American Virus Deaths at 100,000: What Does a Number Mean?
The fraught, freighted number of this particular American moment is a round one brimming with zeroes: ...
AP-NORC poll: Half of Americans Would Get a COVID-19 Vaccine
Only about half of Americans say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if the scientists working furiously ...
How Should I Clean and Store my Face Mask?
Cloth face masks worn during the coronavirus pandemic should be washed regularly, according to the U.S ...
As Memorial Day Tempts People Outdoors, Virus Rebound Feared
Millions of Americans are set to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns and take tentative steps outdoors to ...
Big Study Casts More Doubt on Malaria Drugs for Coronavirus
Malaria drugs pushed by President Donald Trump as treatments for the coronavirus did not help and ...
‘Invisible Demon’: Virus Hits Even Top-rated Nursing Homes
The coronavirus has had no regard for health care quality or ratings as it has swept ...
The Absence of Service Dogs During a Critical Period
Today, Michele Ostrander, President and CEO of Freedom Service Dogs, describes the challenges the organization is ...
Pandemic Threatens to Deepen Crisis in Mental Health Care
Even before COVID-19, access to mental health services in the U.S. could be difficult, including for ...
Hospitals, Health Care Sector Reel From COVID-19 Damage
The global coronavirus pandemic has created a huge need for health care in the U.S., but ...
Moderna: Early Coronavirus Vaccine Results Are Encouraging
An experimental vaccine against the coronavirus showed encouraging results in very early testing, triggering hoped-for immune ...
INSIGHT: WDSE Promo on Duluth Nonprofits
In this collaboration with WDSE in Duluth, host Mark Oppenheim interviews nonprofit leaders from Northeastern Minnesota ...
New Coronavirus Test is Imperfect Step Toward Mass Screening
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new type of coronavirus test offers a cheaper, quicker way to screen ...
White House Recommends Tests for All Nursing Home Residents
NEW YORK (AP) — A top world health official Monday warned that countries are essentially driving ...
As Countries Restart, WHO Warns About Lack of Virus Tracing
NEW YORK (AP) — A top world health official Monday warned that countries are essentially driving ...
US Infection Rate Rising Outside New York as States Open Up
Take the New York metropolitan area's progress against the coronavirus out of the equation and the ...
Justices Wary of Tying AIDS Money to Prostitution Pledge
WASHINGTON (AP) — In its second day of arguments by phone, the Supreme Court appeared skeptical ...
INSIGHT: KLCS Promo on Los Angeles Nonprofits
In this collaboration with KLCS in Los Angeles, host Mark Oppenheim interviews nonprofit leaders from Los ...
With virus, US higher education may face existential moment
The dramatic and widespread fallout from the COVID-19 virus has thrown the U.S. higher education system ...
AP-NORC Poll: Seeking Virus Data, People Struggle With Trust
An essential question that many Americans are grappling with as they seek out the information they ...
NONPROFIT REPORT: Health Organizations in Covid-19
Host Mark Oppenheim interview guests: PAN Foundation President & CEO Daniel Klein; California Health Collaborative President ...
Immigrants Deliver Food, ‘Hope’ to Workers Hit by Pandemic
Growing number of people who have taken it upon themselves to help an immigrant community that ...
California Food For Seniors Plan Could Run Out of Money Soon
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom's first-in-the-nation plan to pay for and deliver three ...
Making Public Transit Safe Next Hurdle in Easing Lockdowns
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In cities around the world, public transit systems are key to ...
Health Officials Ready New Guidelines as Restrictions Ease
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is reviewing proposed new guidelines for how restaurants, schools, churches ...
Administration Offers Plan to Cover COVID Care for Uninsured
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced a plan Wednesday to start paying hospitals and doctors ...
10,000 Deaths: Ravaged Nursing Homes Plead For More Testing
NEW YORK (AP) — After two months and more than 10,000 deaths that have made the ...
Amid Pandemic, Charities and Nonprofits Face Huge Challenges
NEW YORK (AP) — While celebrities and billionaires have announced huge gifts to combat the COVID-19 ...
VA Medical Facilities Struggle to Cope With The Coronavirus
BOSTON (AP) — As she treated patient after patient infected with the coronavirus at a Veterans ...
NONPROFIT REPORT: Disability and Special Needs Organizations in Covid-19
Host Mark Oppenheim interview guests: VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired CEO Nancy Miller; Gatepath ...
US OKs 1st Coronavirus Test That Allows Self-swab at Home
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Tuesday OK'd the first coronavirus test that allows people ...
Nations Seek to Ease Nursing Home Loneliness Yet Keep Safe
As the virus raced through Europe, the hardest-hit countries — Italy, Spain, Britain, France — banned ...
FDA Approves Pill for Aggressive Breast Cancer That’s Spread
U.S. regulators on Friday approved a new drug for an aggressive type of breast cancer that's ...
Virus Ravages NY Nursing Homes: Many Report Multiple Deaths
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The despair wrought on nursing homes by the coronavirus was laid bare ...
US Relief Checks Begin Arriving As Economic Damage Piles Up
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government relief checks began arriving in Americans' bank accounts as the economic damage ...
Health Care Workers Are 10%-20% of US Coronavirus Cases
NEW YORK (AP) — Between 10% and 20% of U.S. coronavirus cases are health care workers, ...
Groups Used to Serving Desperately Poor Nations Now Help US
In Santa Barbara, forklifts chug through the warehouse of Direct Relief, hustling pallets of much-needed medical ...
Lockdowns Mean Millions of Women Can’t Reach Birth Control
The International Planned Parenthood Federation, or IPPF, in a new report Thursday says more than one ...
Some Doctors Moving Away From Ventilators For Virus Patients
NEW YORK (AP) — As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to ...
