Month: June 2021

As record high temperatures batter much of the country, expert advice on staying active this summer. View original article Contributor: Gretchen Reynolds

When Malone Mukwende, 21, started medical school in London, he identified a fundamental problem: almost all the images and data used in its teaching were based on studies of white patients. But medical symptoms can present very differently on Black and brown skin, leading to misdiagnosis, suffering and even death. Still a student, he has … Read more

On April 8, more than 4.3 million people in the U.S. received a COVID-19 vaccine dose. But after that peak, the numbers began to fall. By June 3, the national seven-day average for daily shots given had dropped to 850,000. But after that—with weeks to go before the Fourth of July, the date by which … Read more

Alfredo “Freddy” Valles was an accomplished trumpeter and a beloved music teacher for nearly four decades at one of the poorest middle schools in El Paso, Texas. He was known for buying his students shoes and bow ties for their band concerts, his effortlessly positive demeanor and his suave personal style—“he looked like he stepped … Read more

(WASHINGTON) — Deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by 32% last year, with two devastating spikes eight months apart, a government watchdog reported Tuesday in the most comprehensive look yet at the ravages of COVID-19 among its most vulnerable victims. —“We knew this was going to be bad, but I don’t think even … Read more

The new information, included in interviews with agency officials and 83 pages of internal documents, might not quiet a furor over the drug Aduhelm that has drawn in Alzheimer’s doctors and patients, members of Congress, Medicare officials, and the agency itself. View original article Contributor: Laurie McGinley

Houston Methodist was one of the nation’s first health systems to impose a coronavirus vaccine mandate. View original article Contributor: Dan Diamond

The United States will miss President Biden’s original goal of getting at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine to 70 percent of adults by July 4, White House coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients conceded on Tuesday. View original article Contributor: Dan Diamond

The new information, included in interviews with agency officials and 83 pages of internal documents, might not quiet a furor over the drug Aduhelm that has drawn in Alzheimer’s doctors and patients, members of Congress, Medicare officials, and the agency itself. View original article Contributor: Laurie McGinley

Houston Methodist was one of the nation’s first health systems to impose a coronavirus vaccine mandate. View original article Contributor: Dan Diamond