Jun 11, 2020

Even though respiratory viruses are one of the most common triggers for asthma exacerbations, not all of these viruses affect patients equally. There is no strong evidence supporting that patients wit...

Jun 11, 2020

Even before the May 25 killing of George Floyd in police custody drew large crowds of protesters into the streets of U.S. cities, people were beginning to throng beaches, bars and restaurants. Whether...

Jun 11, 2020

OSAGE BEACH, Mo. — On a sun-kissed summer Saturday in this tourist town, one could almost imagine the pandemic didn’t happen. Dozens of people mingled, unmasked, outside the frozen custard stand. ...

Jun 10, 2020

Nearly 600 front-line health care workers appear to have died of COVID-19, according to Lost on the Frontline, a project launched by The Guardian and KHN that aims to count, verify and memorialize eve...

Jun 10, 2020

The U.S. health care system is famously resistant to government-imposed change. It took decades to create Medicare and Medicaid, mostly due to opposition from the medical-industrial complex. Then it w...

Jun 09, 2020

As Montana plows forward with its reopening, including throwing open the doors to tourism on June 1, the outlook is starkly different for members of the state’s Native American nations, which ha...

Jun 09, 2020

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Even as most California hospitals have avoided an incapacitating surge in coronavirus patients, some facilities near the Mexican border have been overwhelmed. They include El C...

Jun 08, 2020

Studies of RAAS inhibitors, hydroxychloroquine withdrawn for lack of third-party validation In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, research has been on a fast and furious track to understand its impa...

Jun 08, 2020

U.S. public health officials are closer to identifying a road map for curbing the rising rates of syphilis infections in newborn babies, but with so many resources diverted to stopping the spread of C...

Jun 05, 2020

FRIDAY, June 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A small number of nonhospitalized patients with COVID-19 who self-medicated with high-dose famotidine reported some relief of their symptoms, according to a ca...

Jun 05, 2020

But last word not yet spoken Hydroxychloroquine is back in the news as another study, just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, again found that it comes up short as a therapy for Covid-...

Jun 05, 2020

“Save your business while saving lives,” reads the website of Because Health, a Seattle tech startup selling two types of tests to employers willing to pay $350 a pop to learn whether thei...

Jun 05, 2020

Doctors are fighting not only to save lives from COVID-19, but also to protect patients’ brains. Although COVID-19 is best known for damaging the lungs, it also increases the risk of life-threat...

Jun 05, 2020

In late March, Marcell’s girlfriend took him to the emergency room at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, about 11 miles south of Detroit. “I had [acute] paranoia and depression off the roof,&#...

Jun 04, 2020

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. Host Dan Weissmann spoke with three people who have very different reflections on what the COVID-19 pandemic is costing us. A doctor and ad...

Jun 04, 2020

As a contact tracer, Teresa Ayala-Castillo is sometimes asked whether herbal teas and Vicks VapoRub can treat COVID-19. These therapies aren’t exactly official health guidance, but Ayala-Castillo is...

Jun 03, 2020

The economic upheaval and social disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic have upended the assumptions many people made last fall about which insurance plan to sign up for, or how much of their p...

Jun 02, 2020

Physicians and healthcare systems across the world have been and continue to respond quickly as the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread. With limited information, they ha...

Jun 02, 2020

Scottie Edwards died of COVID-19 just weeks before he would have gotten out of the Westville Correctional Facility in Indiana. Edwards, 73, began showing symptoms of the disease in early April, accord...

Jun 02, 2020

TUESDAY, June 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Physicians in China experienced a significant increase in mental health symptoms and fear of violence and a decline in mood after the outbreak of COVID-19, ac...