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US Overdose Deaths Topped 100,000 in One Year, Officials Say
NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in one year, a ...
Pfizer Asks FDA to OK COVID-19 Booster Shots for All Adults
Census taker Linda Rothfield's government-issued iPhone kept directing her back to apartments in San Francisco that ...
‘Next Big Wave’: Radiation Drugs Track and Kill Cancer Cells
Doctors are reporting improved survival in men with advanced prostate cancer from an experimental drug that ...
Students Line Up for Vaccines Amid Push to Relax Masking
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas schools are stepping up efforts to administer COVID-19 vaccines to newly ...
More Support Easing Vaccine Patent Rules, but Hurdles Remain
GENEVA (AP) — Several world leaders Thursday praised the U.S. call to expand access to COVID-19 ...
US Parents Excited Over Prospect of Virus Shots for Children
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — After more than a year of fretting over her 13-year son with ...
Some Black Parents Say Remote Learning Gives Racism Reprieve
CHICAGO (AP) — Before schools shuttered during the pandemic, Ayaana Johnson worried every time she dropped ...
Loneliness is Rampant. A Simple Call, or Hug, May be a Cure
CHICAGO (AP) — The stranger's call came when Dianne Green needed it most ...
Unusual Treatment Shows Promise for Kids with Brain Tumors
For decades, a deadly type of childhood cancer has eluded science's best tools. Now doctors have ...
Biden Budget Seeks More for Schools, Health Care and Housing
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden released a $1.5 trillion wish list for his first federal ...
IMF Policy Panel Endorses $650 Billion Increase in Resources
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund on Thursday authorized a $650 billion expansion of the ...
Want to Help Fight for Health Justice? It May be Time to Listen
A pandemic, protests and politics have highlighted the nation's long-standing, deep-seated racial issues and how they ...
US Allows 2 More Over-The-Counter COVID-19 Home Tests
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials have authorized two more over-the-counter COVID-19 tests that can be ...
Arkansas Governor Signs Medical Conscience Objections Law
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday signed into law legislation allowing ...
Banksy Painting Raises $23 Million for UK Health Charities
LONDON (AP) — A Banksy painting honoring Britain's health workers in the pandemic has sold for ...
Masks and Gloves Are Saving Lives — and Causing Pollution
PACIFICA, Calif. (AP) — Disposable masks, gloves and other types of personal protective equipment are safeguarding ...
Miami Beach Curfew Aims to Shut Down Spring Break Partying
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A party-ending curfew imposed after fights, gunfire, property destruction and dangerous ...
Zoos, Scientists Aim to Curb People Giving Virus to Animals
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The coughing among the western lowland gorillas at the San Diego Zoo ...
Study Links Green Communities to Lower Stroke Risk
The greener the neighborhood, the lower the stroke risk, a new study suggests ...
Dementia May Be a Risk Factor for Infection but Not Death From COVID-19
People who have dementia are at much higher risk of becoming infected with COVID-19, but no ...
Volunteers are Key at Vaccine Sites. It Pays Off with a Shot
SEATTLE (AP) — When Seattle's largest health care system got a mandate from Washington state to ...
Calming Us Down or Revving Us Up, Music Can be Good for the Heart
Stuck in traffic, with a nasty storm making a stressful commute even worse, Joanne Loewy reached ...
COVID-19 Pandemic Fuels Attacks on Health Workers Globally
Two Nigerian nurses were attacked by the family of a deceased COVID-19 patient. One nurse had ...
Tensions Over Vaccine Equity Pit Rural Against Urban America
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rita Fentress was worried she might get lost as she traveled down ...
How Would COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Adapt to Variants?
How would COVID-19 vaccine makers adapt to variants? ...
5 Ways Parents Can Help Kids Avoid Gender Stereotypes
(THE CONVERSATION) In the last century, significant progress has been made in advancing gender equity in ...
Not to Be Sniffed At: Agony of Post-COVID-19 Loss of Smell
NICE, France (AP) — The doctor slid a miniature camera into the patient's right nostril, making ...
US Coronavirus Death Toll Approaches Milestone of 500,000
The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the ...
NY Sues Amazon, Saying it Didn’t Protect Workers from Virus
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York attorney general is suing Amazon over COVID-19 safety protocols, ...
Vaccine Delays Leave Grocery Workers Feeling Expendable
As panicked Americans cleared supermarkets of toilet paper and food last spring, grocery employees gained recognition ...
CDC: Strong Evidence In-Person Schooling Can Be Done Safely
The nation's top public health agency said Friday that in-person schooling can resume safely with masks, ...
Black Hospital Faces Vaccine Mistrust From Unlikely Source
CHICAGO (AP) — In a makeshift vaccination center at a safety-net Chicago hospital, a patient services ...
Nursing Home Protections Limit Families Who Want to Sue
In her room at a Georgia nursing home, Bessie Burden was so concerned about the coronavirus ...
Biden’s Dilemma in Virus Aid Fight: Go Big or Go Bipartisan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's push for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill is forcing ...
Pentagon Deploys Troops to Fuel COVID-19 Vaccine Drive
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will deploy more than 1,100 troops to five vaccination centers in ...
NC Lawmakers Pass COVID Relief, Advance K-12 Reopening Bill
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved a coronavirus relief bill that ...
Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccine May Reduce Virus Transmission
AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine does more than prevent people from falling seriously ill — it appears to ...
Dolly Parton on Super Bowl Commercial and COVID-19 Vaccine
NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton has been singing about everyday office employees working "9 to ...
Report: Many US Nursing Home Staff Decline First COVID Shots
A little more than a third of nursing home workers have been getting COVID-19 vaccines when ...
Push to Reopen Schools Could Leave Out Millions of Students
President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by ...
