Category: Health

Within a few weeks, perhaps before many Americans finish decorating for the holidays, the U.S. could have access to a new antiviral pill from Merck expected to alter the deadly … Read More

For the past 20 years, I have been engaged in efforts to end the opioid epidemic, as a public health official, researcher and clinician. And for every one of those years … Read More

On the afternoon of Oct. 20, Philip Ronan, a patient at the Arizona State Hospital, left art class to use the bathroom—and never returned. He had a pair of scissors … Read More

Three employees of Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston are fighting the hospital’s denial of their vaccine religious exemption requests. Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to the hospital on behalf … Read More

Newark Public Schools has yet to launch a COVID testing program for students and teachers nearly a week after the state’s “vaccine or test” mandate went into effect, and nearly … Read More

The state of Illinois is readying plans to vaccinate school-aged children younger than 12 against the coronavirus. The Food and Drug Administration’s panel of advisors is scheduled to debate on … Read More

Gov. Tony Evers is changing his mind about paying people to get the coronavirus shot. Evers on Monday said Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services will offer $100 gift cards to … Read More

Negotiations have stalled between New York City’s teachers union and City Hall over a vaccination mandate for school staffers, pushing union leaders to file a formal complaint with the state. The … Read More

More than 1,200 of Indiana’s nearly 2,200 schools are not reporting their COVID-19 cases to the state this school year, health officials said Friday, as positivity rates and hospitalizations for … Read More