Year: 2023

For these canine experts, an invitation to pick the winners of the Westminster Dog Show is an honor — and a serious responsibility. View original article Contributor: Emily Anthes

As more young people risk hearing loss, over-the-counter hearing aids are providing new options, but also confusing choices. View original article Contributor: Neelam Bohra

Regardless of income or education, Black mothers have worse birth outcomes. View original article Contributor: Claire Cain Miller and Sarah Kliff

COVID-19 has caused a public health crisis unlike any other in recent memory, but three years into the pandemic, there are signs that governments and public health authorities are ready to start putting the urgency of the threat in the past. On May 5, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 is no longer … Read more

NEW YORK — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, submitted her resignation Friday, saying the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic was a good time to make a transition. Walensky’s last day will be June 30, CDC officials said, and an interim director wasn’t immediately named. She sent a … Read more

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide. WHO said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn’t … Read more