health care

North Texas Honda dealers are using this week to show gratitude for health care workers who are on the front line.

Yes, people need to get back to work, but ultimately, there is a highly contagious and deadly virus that is still spreading. What are the long and short term effects?

Yes, people need to get back to work, but ultimately, there is a highly contagious and deadly virus that is still spreading. What are the long and short term effects?

Thousands of health care workers sacrificed their safety by traveling to NYC to help overwhelmed hospitals. Many of them are coming home.

Thousands of health care workers from across the country risked their lives to travel to hard-hit New York City, where more than 12,000 people have died from coronavirus.

The Supreme Court has ruled that insurance companies can collect $12 billion from the federal government to cover their losses in the early years of the health care law championed by President Barack Obama

Christopher Hoffman had the telltale symptoms: a dry cough, trouble breathing and a missing sense of smell. In early March, before the coronavirus shut the country down, the 25-year-old New Yorker went to urgent care, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. “Because I didn’t have a fever, they didn’t think to test me for COVID-19,” Hoffman told NBC News....

A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large new study

Over the past month, a staggering 22 million Americans filed for unemployment as cities and states around the country continue to order Americans to shelter in place in an attempt to mitigate the public health effects of the coronavirus.  In the U.S., unemployment during a health crisis can be especially challenging since about 49% of Americans get health insurance through their employer. As...

UCLA Biodesign Fellow Glen Meyerowitz built the device in a few hours and is hoping it can serve as a proof-of-concept for a low-cost ventilator that could help hospitals with ventilator shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic.

During a coronavirus task force briefing the Surgeon General Jerome Adams made remarks about “drugs, tobacco and alcohol” and “big momma” related to the black community and the coronavirus. In response to the much-publicized remarks black health professionals are calling his remarks irresponsible and lacking awareness, NBC News reported. Adam’s remarks come as health experts continue to highlight the...

Between 10% and 20% of U.S. coronavirus cases are health care workers, and they tend to be younger and are hospitalized at lower rates than infected patients overall

Scientists around the world are scrambling to find a vaccine — the ultimate Covid-19 panacea.  There are now 70 candidate vaccines in development, up from to 44 on March 20, according to a document from WHO published Saturday. Experts expect it to take between 12 and 18 months to get a vaccine approved for mass use.  Of the 70 Covid-19…

One of the premier medical facilities in the country and Minnesota’s largest private employer on Friday announced a series of cost-cutting measures to deal with a proposed $3 billion loss in 2020.

The Trump administration started sending out initial payments to hospitals and physicians Friday, marking the first tranche of $100 billion in relief funding for health systems and providers passed by Congress as part of  the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security act.  The money will help make up for lost revenue and increased costs health systems are facing due...

The coronavirus is no doubt giving us all anxiety.

Feed the Front Line raises money to buy take-out food from local restaurants — giving those businesses an income – then, volunteers deliver free meals to hardworking health care professionals at local hospitals.

With ventilators in short supply, a do-it-yourself movement of sorts has sprung up with enterprising doctors and others repurposing machines or looking for ways to produce them quickly.

Maeleigh Soper, a travel nurse based at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, sat and cried with one of her young patients last month.

Roughly 40 million African Americans are deciding minute by minute whether to put their faith in the government and in the medical field during the coronavirus pandemic