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U.S. suicides dropped last year, defying pandemic expectations

The number of U.S. suicides fell nearly 6% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic – the largest annual decline in…

April 9, 2021

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Pine River Shares targets rural residents with vaccination clinic

sought to reach those who might otherwise decline COVID-19 vaccine

April 9, 2021

Health

FDA OKs first new ADHD drug in more than a decade for children

Qelbree is not a stimulant or a controlled substance

April 5, 2021

Health

Fully vaccinated people can travel safely again, CDC says

A passenger wears a face mask during an airline flight Feb. 3 after taking off from Atlanta. On Friday, April…

April 2, 2021

Health

COVID-19 pushed total U.S. deaths beyond 3.3 million last year

Some of the nearly 900 large poster-sized photos of Detroit victims of COVID-19 are displayed on Belle Isle in Detroit.…

March 31, 2021

Health

Man’s Ebola relapse spawned dozens of new cases in Africa

Health workers wearing protective suits in 2019 tend to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation cube in Beni, Congo.…

March 31, 2021

Health

COVID-19 vaccine found highly effective in real-world U.S. study

Syringes filled with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop up site in the Queens borough of New York. According…

March 29, 2021

Health

Shots in little arms: COVID-19 vaccine testing turns to kids

Alejandra Gerardo, 9, looks up to her mom, Dr. Susanna Naggie, as she gets the first of two Pfizer COVID-19…

March 26, 2021

Health

A ‘remarkable’ flu season: It nearly disappeared

Several factors may have caused dramatic drop in rates of infection

March 25, 2021

Health

Researchers study impact of pandemic cancer screening pause

Stacy Hill, 48, of Philadelphia. After she lost her job and health insurance, a colonoscopy revealed two growths that were…

March 22, 2021

Health

Why countries are halting the AstraZeneca shot

The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization say the data available don’t suggest the vaccine caused the clots…

March 15, 2021

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Stick a pin in it: Fort Lewis College study measures whether dry needling affects foot posture

relatively new therapeutic technique has not been well researched

March 13, 2021

Health

COVID-19 deaths falling but Americans ‘must remain vigilant’

Ventilator tubes are attached Nov. 19, 2020, to a COVID-19 patient at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission…

March 12, 2021

Health

UN says Ebola in Guinea may be linked to 2014 outbreak

At a press briefing in Geneva, WHO emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan described the results of the genetic sequencing of…

March 12, 2021

Health

Expert says origins of pandemic could be known in few years

Marion Koopmans of the World Health Organization team speaks Feb. 9 during a joint press conference held at the end…

March 10, 2021

Health

Fully vaccinated people can gather without masks, CDC says

Medical assistant Keona Shepard holds up the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as she prepares to administer it at the…

March 8, 2021

Health

Study finds mask mandates, dining out influence virus spread

Visitors wearing face masks leave the Alamo, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in San Antonio. Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is…

March 5, 2021

Health

Swelling after COVID-19 shots may cause cancer false alarms

According to recommendations from an expert panel from three cancer centers in the U.S. published in the journal Radiology on…

March 5, 2021

Health

WHO: ‘Premature,’ ‘unrealistic’ COVID-19 will end soon

A teddy bear hangs from a fence at a spring charms fair at the Dimitrie Gusti Village Museum in Bucharest,…

March 1, 2021

Health

New coronavirus variant in New York spurs caution, concern

People wait in line at a mass vaccination site Wednesday in the Queens borough of New York. This FEMA run…

February 26, 2021

Health

U.S. tops 500,000 virus deaths, matching the toll of 3 wars

President Joe Biden held a sunset moment of silence and a candle-lighting ceremony at the White House and ordered American…

February 22, 2021

Health

U.S. life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII

‘This is a huge decline’

February 19, 2021

Health

UN authorizes AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine for emergency use

A Moroccan nurse administers the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to a health worker, at Cheikh Khalifa Hospital in Casablanca, Morocco.…

February 15, 2021

Health

CDC study finds two masks are better than one vs. COVID-19

A government study released on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, finds that wearing two masks can better than one, in protecting…

February 15, 2021