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Cavan Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As new cases of COVID-19 decline across the country for the first time in weeks, the debate over face masks for kids is reaching a fever pitch. New Jersey [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Groundbreaking research by several top American medical centers has identified a COVID pandemic spike in cases of so-called “broken heart syndrome,” a potentially deadly stress-induced heart condition that doctors say [Read More…]

Maja Hitij/Staff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — During the Summer Olympics in Tokyo last year, star gymnast Simone Biles shined a light on the mental health struggles many Olympians face when she decided to withdraw from [Read More…]

Courtesy Chris Crouch (NEW YORK) — A couple in Texas have paid the ultimate tribute to a doctor who went above and beyond to help their family last year. Diana Crouch, 28, and Chris Crouch, [Read More…]

Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a new dashboard Friday that tracks COVID-19 in wastewater samples across the country. The data comes from the federal agency’s [Read More…]

Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — It has been nearly two years since Patricia Dowd, a 57-year-old San Jose resident, died of the coronavirus, in early February 2020. Although the virus would soon [Read More…]

Carl Court/Getty Images (BEIJING) — For the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, officials have established a series of rules to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This will mark the second Olympics since the pandemic began, [Read More…]

Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise Law Firm (NEW YORK) — For Christmas two years ago, Jessica Harvey Galloway was gifted a home DNA test kit by her parents, mom Jeanine Harvey and her [Read More…]

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Gay and lesbian adults are more likely to have been vaccinated against COVID-19 than heterosexual adults, federal officials said Thursday. A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and [Read More…]

Toby Scott/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans have purchased rapid COVID-19 tests online or at local stores and signed up to receive test kits through a free government program. Unlike [Read More…]

Montinique Monroe/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Over 50,000 customers are in the dark in Texas Thursday morning as a winter storm pummels the state with snow and ice. Here are safety tips to keep in [Read More…]

Leigh Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday relaunched the federal government’s cancer “moonshot” initiative, with the goal of cutting the death rate from cancer in half over the next quarter-century. [Read More…]

KoldoyChris/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nearly two years into the coronavirus pandemic, children ages 5 and under are one step closer to being eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. Food [Read More…]

Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For many parents of unvaccinated toddlers in the U.S., a return to normalcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic seems out of reach. Many have [Read More…]

Scott Heins/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — On the cusp of the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is battling back the biggest surge of the virus yet with the omicron variant. Cases, [Read More…]

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When retired four-star Gen. Pete Chiarelli tested positive for COVID-19, getting a treatment prescribed wasn’t the problem. Filling it, and finding the therapies, was. At 71, and having [Read More…]

Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dr. Albert Lam, a geriatrician who works with nursing home patients in Palo Alto, California, was excited to be among the first to prescribe the new antiviral [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.6 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 879,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]

iStock/Pornpak Khunatorn (NEW YORK) — There’s growing concern among union leaders in Boston that a “disproportionate” number of educators of color may leave their jobs because of a vaccine mandate for city employees. “We are [Read More…]

Gado/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Moderna announced Thursday that it’s launched early-stage clinical trials of an HIV mRNA vaccine. The biotechnology company has teamed up with the nonprofit ​​International AIDS Vaccine Initiative to develop the shot, [Read More…]