Fitness / Health

Topline There are now nine suspected cases of monkeypox—a virus typically limited to certain regions in Africa—in seven states across the country, the Centers for Disease Control said on Thursday,...

Vaccines against COVID-19, while protective against hospitalization and death, may not be great at preventing long COVID after breakthrough infections, a new study finds. Epidemiologists associated with the US Department...

The Biden administration rewarded private insurers with an 8.5% hike in Medicare Advantage payments in April, despite new evidence that these companies profiteered at Medicare's expense during the first year...

After half a dozen monkeypox cases were identified in the United Kingdom earlier this month, countries on alert across the world have spent the past week looking for—and finding—hundreds of...

A case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Massachusetts, following reports of nine cases in the U.K. since early May. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) released a statement...

Monkeypox First Case Detected In U.S. This Year. Monkeypox is surging around the globe and now the rare virus has found its way inside our borders. The first case of...

Last month, President Biden proposed fixing the so-called “family glitch,” a quirk in Obamacare’s text that has prevented millions of people from purchasing subsidized coverage through the exchanges. It’s only...

“Food or Poison? … Strange Pranks of a Medical Mystery” (Frederic Damrau, M.D., November 1936)

Almost two years and two months after the World Health Organization (WHO) called COVID a pandemic, the US officially passed the 1 million death toll for the virus. It is...

WASHINGTON — With Congress returning this week, the Biden administration is preparing to renew its push to secure Covid-19 funding, a White House official said, after a $10 billion bipartisan...