Jun 30, 2020

THURSDAY, June 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Among women of reproductive age with COVID-19, pregnant women are more likely to be hospitalized and to be admitted to the intensive care unit, according to...

Jun 30, 2020

Written by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel In a June 3rd Washington Post article about recent changes in airport screening practices, risk management expert Bruce McIndoe discus...

Jun 30, 2020

Pregnant Hispanic, non-Hispanic Blacks appear to be disproportionately affected by Covid-19 Pregnant women should make an effort to reduce their risk of getting Covid-19, as contracting the virus may...

Jun 30, 2020

CDC urges clinicians to keep EVALI on their radar as it could be mistaken for Covid-19 Cough, fever, diarrhea — all raise diagnostic hackles for suspicion of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid...

Jun 30, 2020

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to download. KHN senior correspondent Markian Hawryluk joined KUNC’s Erin O’Toole on “Colorado Edition” to discuss his recent story that detailed th...

Jun 30, 2020

Davetta Brooks, 75, who has heart failure, a fractured hip and macular degeneration, is afraid. Conditions in her low-income senior building on Chicago’s Near West Side — the Congressman George W....

Jun 30, 2020

Regina Fargis didn’t know what to do. Fargis runs Summit Hills — a health and retirement community in Spartanburg, South Carolina, that offers skilled nursing, activities and communal meals for...

Jun 29, 2020

I am worried. Every day for over a month, I saw tens of thousands of black people around the country marching in protest of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless ot...

Jun 29, 2020

Fauci says he’s never seen a virus like this As the country saw a record upsurge in Covid-19 cases — nearly 40,000 in one day — the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force held its first meeti...

Jun 29, 2020

Samantha Young, California Healthline’s California politics correspondent, helped moderate a discussion hosted by the Sacramento Press Club about California’s response to the coronaviru...

Jun 29, 2020

As states ease their lockdowns, bars are emerging as fertile breeding grounds for the coronavirus. They create a risky cocktail of tight quarters, young adults unbowed by the fear of illness and, in s...

Jun 29, 2020

DENVER — Melody Lewis lives like a nomad in the heart of downtown. Poking her head out of her green tent on a recent June day, the 57-year-old pointed a few blocks away to the place where city cr...

Jun 26, 2020

THURSDAY, June 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Sex and ethnicity differential patterns of COVID-19 positivity are not explained by cardiometabolic, socioeconomic, or behavioral factors, according to a st...

Jun 26, 2020

THURSDAY, June 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- It is possible to predict the likelihood of testing positive for COVID-19, according to a study published online June 10 in CHEST. Lara Jehi, M.D., from ...

Jun 26, 2020

THURSDAY, June 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As COVID-19 cases surge in Texas, the state is pausing its reopening process and freeing up hospital beds for COVID-19 patients. Texas has recorded more ...

Jun 26, 2020

For every case reported there were likely 10 others infected WASHINGTON — CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, said that more individuals are likely infected with Covid-19 than the 2.3 million that ha...

Jun 26, 2020

Three Tuesdays each month, Katherine O’Brien straps on her face mask and journeys about half an hour by Metra rail to Northwestern University’s Lurie Cancer Center. What were once packed train ...

Jun 26, 2020

Aaron McCullough brought his 3-year-old daughter, Ariana, to a playground in a leafy neighborhood of Rochester, New York, on a day in mid-June when the temperature topped out at 94 degrees. The pla...

Jun 26, 2020

Tony Scott boarded an American Airlines flight May 25 from Los Angeles to Dallas. It was a trip he felt he had to take despite concerns about the coronavirus. His son, who lives in Texas, was having h...

Jun 26, 2020

Coronavirus infections are rising so fast in Fresno County that California public health officials have identified it as one of nearly a dozen counties entering dangerous territory as economies reopen...