October 6, 2020, 6:00am Health
MINNEAPOLIS — As an infectious disease specialist at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Jack O’Horo is an expert on how to safely create a “COVID-19 bubble” a small, restricted group of people who visit each other’s homes mask-free and spend time together without keeping a 6-foot distance. Read story
October 5, 2020, 11:35am Clark County Health
Clark County's increased pace of new COVID-19 cases held steady this weekend, with 108 new cases and no new deaths reported since Friday, according to Clark County Public Health. Read story
October 5, 2020, 8:14am Health
STOCKHOLM — Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a major source of liver disease that affects millions worldwide. Read story
October 5, 2020, 7:41am Health
Childhood vaccinations are another casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. Read story
October 5, 2020, 6:05am Health
SEATTLE — In early March, state inspectors entered a sprawling nursing home in the rural southeast corner of King County where concerns over thin staffing were mounting just as COVID-19 began to spread across the state. Read story
October 4, 2020, 6:00pm Health
Most Americans have never heard of Dr. Richard Whitley, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Read story
October 4, 2020, 12:54pm Health
For a term that’s at least 100 years old, “herd immunity” has gained new life in 2020. Read story
October 4, 2020, 12:53pm Health
Public health officials in the U.S. could take heart at the end of the summer. Even as the new coronavirus continued to spread, fewer people were winding up in the hospital because of COVID-19, and fewer were dying. Read story
October 4, 2020, 12:35pm Health
SINGAPORE — In the bleak ranking of worst COVID-19 outbreaks, the United States, with 7.2 million infections, is likely to be eclipsed only by India, which has 1 million fewer cases but is catching up fast. Read story
October 4, 2020, 6:02am Clark County Health
The Health Systems Quality Assurance Division of the state Department of Health recently took disciplinary actions or has withdrawn charges against these Clark County health care providers. Read story