The issue is whether a federal law that seeks to place Native American foster children in Native American homes is constitutional. The case could turn on whether the justices see tribes as racial groups or sovereign nations. View original article Contributor: Jan Hoffman
The number of Americans killed by alcohol rose by 26% during the first year of the pandemic, according to data released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) on Nov. 4. This steep rise occurred from the start of 2019 until the end of 2020, jumping from about 10.4 deaths per 100,000 people to … Read more
Every morning at 7 a.m., Jane Walsh rolls out of bed and onto her yoga mat. For the next half an hour—before coffee or breakfast or feeding the cats—she bends and stretches her body. “It sets the tone for the rest of the day,” says Walsh, 58, who works in public relations in New York … Read more
Pfizer’s updated COVID-19 booster significantly revved up adults’ virus-fighting antibodies, the company said Friday, releasing early findings from a rigorous study of the new shots. Booster doses tweaked to target the most common Omicron strain rolled out in early September, and the Food and Drug Administration said the latest data should spur more Americans to … Read more
At first it seemed like a routine call—something the paramedics had dealt with countless times before. A man in his mid-50s was having a heart attack, and his physician had called for emergency support. But when the paramedics arrived, the physician pulled them aside and told them something peculiar: the man had no cardiovascular symptoms … Read more
That doctors can peer into the human body without making a single incision once seemed like a miraculous concept. But medical imaging in radiology has come a long way, and the latest artificial intelligence (AI)-driven techniques are going much further: exploiting the massive computing abilities of AI and machine learning to mine body scans for … Read more
Getting promising new medications into the hands of doctors and their patients has proved difficult. View original article Contributor: Katherine Ellison
The chemicals don’t naturally break down and are so widespread that they’re found in the blood of 97 percent of Americans. View original article Contributor: Alex Brown
CDC reports unusually high flu hospitalizations amid concerns of flu, covid and RSV further straining health system this winter. View original article Contributor: Fenit Nirappil
Getting promising new medications into the hands of doctors and their patients has proved difficult. View original article Contributor: Katherine Ellison