If approved by states and municipalities, the settlement would allow funds to be allocated to communities to pay for addiction and prevention services. View original article Contributor: Jan Hoffman
With some health care workers still refusing to be immunized, medical centers around the country are requiring shots as cases climb once again. View original article Contributor: Reed Abelson
After documenting a last-resort treatment at one hospital, a photographer who spent hours in patients’ rooms describes capturing the humanity of the struggle. View original article Contributor: Isadora Kosofsky
When my daughter’s delivery went off the script I had imagined, it made me wonder about what we ask from our birth stories. View original article Contributor: Leslie Jamison
This might turn out to be a crucial window to try to prevent Alzheimer’s and other chronic diseases that often accompany older age. View original article Contributor: Kim Tingley
A cellular chat after your workout may explain in part why weight training burns fat. View original article Contributor: Gretchen Reynolds
Tennessee takes down alternative COVID-19 care sites Associated Press >View original article Contributor:
When COVID-19 began spreading in the U.S. in March 2020, McKale Santin was working at a nursing home in Burlington, Vermont. She and her coworkers didn’t yet know how deadly the virus would become, but she remembers feeling nervous as the first patients got sick and she was asked to examine them with only a … Read more
Japanese health authorities have an aggressive testing plan in place for the Tokyo Olympics, but positive COVID-19 tests are already cropping up. With the Olympics taking place during a pandemic, in a city under a state of emergency, the Tokyo Organizing Committee has created a stringent set of policies governing how athletes and their coaches, … Read more
The proposed settlement would require drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major drug distributors — McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen — pay billions for the abatement of the deadly opioid crisis. View original article Contributor: Meryl Kornfield