MoMo Productions/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Students in Los Angeles public schools must wear a non-cloth mask with a nose wire at all times, including during sports, beginning Monday, the district announced in a letter to families this weekend. Schools will give Read More
STEFANI REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, said Sunday he is “as confident as you can be” about the prospect of most states reaching a peak of omicron cases by Read More
Glow Images/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — Battle against omicron variant pushes hospitals, health care workers to the brink COVID-19 cases have soared to new records with nearly 800,000 new infections per day. A 55-year-old Minnesota man, who was transferred to a Texas Read More
iStock/narvikk (NEW YORK) — As the recent COVID-19 wave begins to ebb on the East Coast and in the Midwest, Los Angeles County is still being battered by the virus. The county reported 102 new COVID deaths Thursday, the highest number recorded in a single day since Read More
Westend61/iStock (NEW YORK) — A peanut allergy treatment often used on children 4 years old and up in the U.S. appears to be safe for toddlers too, a new study has found. Around 2% of children in the country suffer from the allergy, some to a debilitating degree, Read More
Luis Alvarez/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — There’s no denying therapy can be a valuable resource for guiding you through life’s ups and downs. However, it’s also important to recognize that your first meeting with a therapist may not feel like the Read More
Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images (OKLAHOMA CITY) — Oklahoma doctors say they are seeing a massive surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations among children — more than during any previous wave of the pandemic. Between Jan. 9 and Jan. 15, more than 16,000 Read More
The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While the benefits of exercise are becoming increasingly well known, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that more than one-fifth of Americans remain physically inactive. In the study, Read More
Jasmine Merdan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Many continue to worry about experiencing side effects from vaccines — especially the COVID-19 vaccines — but new data from a comprehensive meta-analysis suggests there is little to fear. The study from Beth Read More
Jasmine Merdan/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Both vaccination and a prior infection provided protection against another infection and hospitalization due to COVID-19 during the United States’ delta wave, according to a study released Wednesday by the Centers for Read More
