September 9, 2020, 11:07am Health
WASHINGTON — Roughly 33.2 million Americans, or 10.3 percent, lacked health insurance in 2019, according to new data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read story
September 9, 2020, 10:23am Health
AstraZeneca’s suspension of final testing of its potential COVID-19 vaccine while it investigates a volunteer’s illness shows there will be “no compromises” on safety in developing the shots, the chief of the National Institutes of Health told Congress on Wednesday. Read story
September 8, 2020, 11:52am Health
Two new studies made the case recently for an alternative to the invasive COVID-19 tests that require collecting a sample from deep in the nose. Saliva samples, both studies found, were nearly as reliable and far less of a hassle. Read story
September 8, 2020, 11:33am Clark County Health
Clark County Public Health reported 82 new COVID-19 cases and one new death Tuesday in an expanded tally from the Labor Day weekend. Read story
September 8, 2020, 10:31am Business
The top executives of nine drugmakers likely to produce the first vaccines against the new coronavirus signed an unprecedented pledge meant to boost public confidence in any approved vaccines. Read story
September 8, 2020, 10:26am Health
NEW YORK — In the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed something about the people severely ill from COVID-19: Many were obese. Read story
September 8, 2020, 6:02am Health
Vaccines save lives. That’s the message Dr. Priya Sampathkumar, an infectious diseases specialist at Mayo Clinic, wants the public to know. Read story
September 8, 2020, 6:00am Health
FORT WORTH, Texas — Come evening, neighbors might see Richard Giltner gracefully moving his arms in his Fort Worth front yard. Read story
September 8, 2020, 6:00am Breast Cancer
SYDNEY, Australia — The venom from European honeybees has been found to be “remarkably effective” at killing hard-to-treat aggressive breast cancer cells, according to researchers in Western Australia. Read story
September 7, 2020, 10:10am Health
WASHINGTON — At the height of the coronavirus lockdown, President Donald Trump and his top health advisers trumpeted a new test that would help Americans reclaim their lives — one that would tell them if they already had the virus and were protected from getting it again. Read story