Aug 20, 2020

Thousands of letters stuffed with money flooded Jonas Salk’s mailbox the week after his polio vaccine was declared safe and effective in 1955. Everybody wanted his vaccine. Desperate parents clogged...

Aug 20, 2020

As Xinyi Christine Zhang watched the COVID-19 death toll among health care workers rise this spring, she wanted to find a way to give solace — and thanks — to their families. The teenager, of S...

Aug 19, 2020

Findings argue against biologic cause for racial disparities Black race was not found to be a contributing factor in mortality among patients hospitalized for Covid-19 after controlling for sociodemo...

Aug 19, 2020

Yale School of Public Health offering ’open source’ protocol to labs WASHINGTON — The FDA granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a fifth saliva test for Covid-19, this time from the...

Aug 19, 2020

Health workers across the country looked on in horror when New York became the global epicenter of the coronavirus. Now, as physicians in cities such as Houston, Phoenix and Miami face their own COVID...

Aug 19, 2020

MEDFORD, Ore. — From the outside, it appears to be just another suburban allergy clinic, a tidy, tan brick-and-cinder-block building set back from a busy highway and across the road from an auto par...

Aug 18, 2020

Jasmine Obra believed that if it wasn’t for her brother Joshua, she wouldn’t exist. When 7-year-old Josh realized that his parents weren’t going to live forever, he asked for a sibling so he wou...

Aug 18, 2020

After terrorists slammed a plane into the Pentagon on 9/11, ambulances rushed scores of the injured to community hospitals, but only three of the patients were taken to specialized trauma wards. The r...

Aug 18, 2020

Mayra Ramirez remembers the nightmares. During six weeks on life support at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Ramirez said, she had terrifying nightmares that she couldn’t distinguish fr...

Aug 17, 2020

New research was presented at ATS 2020 Virtual, the online annual American Thoracic Society International Conference, from August 5-10. The features below highlight some of the studies presented via t...

Aug 17, 2020

Documents outline recommendations for face coverings, testing protocols, and PPE for pediatricians The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a trio of interim guidance documents offering recomm...

Aug 17, 2020

[khn_slabs slabs="789584" view="pull-right" /] [khn_slabs slabs="1083075" view="pull-right" /] Every day, the nation is reminded of COVID-19’s ongoing impact as new death counts are published. W...

Aug 17, 2020

As the coronavirus swept into Detroit this spring, Wayne State University junior Skye Taylor noticed something striking. On social media, many of her fellow Black classmates who live or grew up in the...

Aug 14, 2020

[khn_slabs slabs="1147240" view="pull-right" /]The first call in early April was from the testing center, informing the nurse she was positive for COVID-19 and should quarantine for two weeks. The ...

Aug 13, 2020

Helping patients practice self-care and embracing telehealth to build a new model.   The devastation of the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our healthcare system—and our private me...

Aug 13, 2020

Public health organizations emphasize saving resources for medically-indicated tests CHICAGO — The AMA, along with other public health organizations, asked Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary...

Aug 13, 2020

More than 900 front-line health care workers have died of COVID-19, according to an interactive database unveiled Tuesday by The Guardian and KHN. Lost on the Frontline is a partnership between the tw...

Aug 12, 2020

Dr. Eric Coe jumped at the chance to help test a COVID-19 vaccine. At his urging, so did his girlfriend, his son and his daughter-in-law. All received shots last week at a clinical research site in...

Aug 12, 2020

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It’s a busy time for the tomato-producing farms in this part of the state. Farms have staffed up with hundreds of workers, most of whom are Latino. Some live locally. Others are...

Aug 11, 2020

Researchers at Duke University tested the effectiveness of 14 commonly available masks in a proof-of-concept study. A low-cost laser device was used to demonstrate that a simple optical measurement me...