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...
by Soram Cheon | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – South Korea has more cases of coronavirus than any country outside China – 1,261 – and that now includes the first U.S. serviceman stationed in the country, according to the United States Forced Korea. The 23-year-old male soldier is stationed at Camp...
by Bing Xiao | Feb 6, 2020 | Featured, Health, Topics
WASHINGTON — A change in the current U.S. policy limiting travel from China to the United States and quarantining returning travelers should be considered as the nation tries to handle the coronavirus outbreak, several health experts told a House hearing...
by Chiara Vercellone | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – Hospitals around the country must develop diagnostic tests to quickly detect possible cases of the coronavirus that started in China and is spreading across the world, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. The FDA, which has launched a website with...
by Mark Satter | Oct 24, 2019 | Health
WASHINGTON – Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned a Senate committee Thursday that efforts to combat the opioid epidemic in the U.S. fall short and laid out a new approach that would end the overprescription of addictive pills. “We still have an epidemic of...
by Alec Bose | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – The public health effects on communities that have witnessed mass shootings, murders, child abuse and other violence need more attention, experts said Thursday. “It’s not just those who died in mass shootings, it’s not even those who are involved in...
