by Xurui Tan | Jul 7, 2020 | Featured, Health
A new effort to tackle the long-standing social isolation and loneliness problems that older adults, people with disabilities and veterans often experience, which has worsened during the coronavirus pandemic, has been launched. It’s called the MENTAL Health...
by Alyk Russell Kenlan | Jul 2, 2020 | Health, Science + Technology
The directors of the nation’s top public health agencies reiterated Thursday that they expect to be able to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine by early next year. The heads of the National Institutes for Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the...
by Anne Snabes | May 13, 2020 | Featured, Health
ALBANY — The heroism of nurses who have been on the front lines treating COVID-19 patients could lead more people to pursue a career in that profession at a time when experts have been predicting there will be a shortage of registered nurses nationwide as Baby Boomers...
by Alec Bose | Mar 27, 2020 | Featured, Health
Medicare-for-All has become one of the most important issues in the democratic primary. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the policy has majority support among the American people at 52% as of last month and has become central to the healthcare policy for...
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by Kelly Cannon | Mar 16, 2020 | Health, Topics
PARIS — Top health experts from around the world are mobilizing to combat the novel coronavirus that has infected more than 77,000 people worldwide. The global health threat posed by the coronavirus has kicked the world’s scientific community into...
by Bing Xiao | Mar 3, 2020 | Featured, Health, Topics
WASHINGTON — As the coronavirus continues to spread across the world, U.S. public health experts say the only way to distinguish it from the seasonal flu is by testing. Last week, clinical labs tested 42,000 respiratory specimens, said Anne Schuchat, principal...
