Health

FilippoBacci/iStock(NEW YORK) — With new stories emerging about the rapid spread of COVID-19, public health experts are now warning the public to stay inside even if they feel healthy. The reason? You may be an asymptomatic carrier. “Asymptomatic transmission Read More

ugurhan/iStock(NEW YORK) — As states sound the alarm over a lack of ventilators to help hospitalized novel coronavirus patients — including a plea for 30,000 machines for New York state alone — experts warned that even if the equipment arrives, Read More

MarianVejcik/iStock(NEW YORK) — Dozens of scientists across the globe are expeditiously developing and testing a variety of therapeutic treatments for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus. Meanwhile, dozens more are working to protect Read More

utah778/iStock(NEW YORK) — The United States health care system is mobilizing to triage a public health emergency that is rapidly taking members of its workforce out of the ranks. Grim projections from the country’s leading health officials over the weekend Read More

fizkes/iStock(NEW YORK) — On Monday, President Donald Trump’s administration took the unprecedented step to temporarily waive rules for the nation’s largest insurer — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — giving some healthcare Read More

ponsulak/iStock(NEW YORK) — The coronavirus pandemic and the social distancing that comes with it can be isolating, anxiety-producing and stressful. State-by-state orders to stay home can also make it hard to seek mental health help in a traditional way. Thanks to Read More

Kaiser Permanente(NEW YORK) — An influx of coronavirus patients has overwhelmed the American health care infrastructure, leaving front-line medical providers to improvise creative solutions to the day-to-day pitfalls of treating those afflicted with the highly Read More

iStock/MarianVejcik(BOSTON) — BY: Dr. Chloë E. Nunneley As the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the country, those who are not infected can protect themselves by avoiding close contact with others and aggressively washing their hands. But beyond Read More

SeventyFour/iStock(CHICAGO) — Public health officials in Illinois on Saturday announced the death of an infant in Chicago who tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, said a full Read More