How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?
The spread of the Omicron variant has given scientists an unsettling answer: repeatedly, sometimes within months.
The spread of the Omicron variant has given scientists an unsettling answer: repeatedly, sometimes within months.
The lone star tick can trigger an allergic reaction to red meat in those bitten. Now this arachnids territory is expanding.
Antibody levels rose in the children who received it, suggesting the vaccine protects against infection. But the data were gathered before the arrival of Omicron.
After Abbott Nutrition issued voluntary recalls of its popular baby formulas, retailers have limited purchases, leaving desperate parents searching for solutions.
Soaring rates were driven largely by gun-related homicides, which rose 35 percent from 2019 to 2020.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.
Both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech have asked the agency to approve their vaccines for children under 5.
Public health experts say the proposal could save hundreds of thousands of lives, especially among Black smokers 85 percent of whom use menthol products.
But prior infection does not guarantee protection from the virus, officials said, and Americans should still get vaccinated and boosted.
Blood tests showed a sharp increase in the proportion of people especially children and adolescents in the United States who had antibodies indicating past exposure to the virus, the agency said.
Depression, self-harm and suicide are rising among American adolescents. For M, a 13-year-old in Minnesota, the despair was almost too much to take.
Many readers of The Times said a judges decision to strike down the mask mandate on public transportation was political and outrageous. Others called it a relief.
After a federal mask mandate was struck down on Monday, travelers are facing a patchwork of rules spanning air travel, trains, buses, cruise ships and ride-hailing services. Heres what to know.
Health experts expressed dismay at a judges ruling that struck down the C.D.C. mask mandate for planes, trains and buses.
Alabama has reported that nine children under 10 had the rare condition, and a few suffered liver failure. Similar cases were reported in North Carolina, as well as in Britain and Israel.