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  • Prostate cancerHealth

    Most prostate cancer can just be watched for years instead of operated on, new long-term study finds

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • Chinese travelersHealth

    U.S. says it wants to test Chinese travelers to prevent ‘a novel variant of concern’ but some experts see another motivation

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • A scene from the Forest Hills of DC senior living facilityHealth

    The ‘pandemic is over’ mindset is seeping into nursing homes in troubling ways: ‘Worry about your granny’

    By Carla K. Johnson, Laura Ungar, and others
  • Black couple

    Shocking study finds huge Black-white mortality gap with in vitro fertilization. ‘These women are still experiencing the same racism’

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • covid shotHealth

    The U.S. ordered 171 million updated COVID booster shots but only 4.4 million went into arms as Biden says ‘the pandemic is over’

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • Dr. Anthony FauciHealth

    Anthony Fauci tests positive for COVID-19

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • TAMARITE DE LITERA, SPAIN – NOVEMBER 4: Paula Fernandez, wearing a Covid-19 protective mask, waits at a pharmacy to buy medication on 4 November 2020 in Tamarite de Litera, Spain. Paula, 42 years-old, is a mother of two children. Two years ago she was fired from her job as a carer for the elderly when she reported that she had breast cancer. The operation to remove the tumour caused her to suffer an arm injury, and the radiation therapy caused her to lose consciousness. The collapse of the health system under the Covid-19 pandemic is causing delays in the diagnosis of her dizziness, as well as the administrative process allowing her to receive welfare support. The Spanish Association Against Cancer AECC Huesca has supported Paula with her rent, as well as the daily commute of over 200 km for her treatments, psychological assistance, and assisting with the request for government financial aid. Paula also volunteers at the cancer association to help other patients.Regarded as the collateral victims of the Coronavirus pandemic, cancer patients have struggled to receive adequate treatments as health centres buckle under the strain of the ongoing pandemic. (Photo by Álvaro Calvo / Getty Images)Health

    Breast cancer drug could help more patients, researchers say: ‘It makes, for the first time, a targetable population’

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Dr. Mher Onanyan takes a short break while waiting for an X-ray of a COVID-19 patient’s lungs at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles, Dec. 22, 2020. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years into the outbreak. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Health

    U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hits 1 million

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • Pig Heart TransplantHealth

    Man who received a heart transplant from a pig dies after two months of unknown causes

    By Lauran Neergaard, Carla K. Johnson, and others
  • A shopper at a grocery store wearing a proactive maskHealth

    The CDC says healthy people can stop wearing masks in places where transmission and hospitalizations are low

    By Carla K. Johnson, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • Patient getting a COVID testHealth

    An estimated 73% of Americans are now immune to Omicron, health experts say

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • FULLERTON, CA – JANUARY 08: Repertory Care Practitioner My Pham is working inside a covid19 patient’s room at Providence St. Jude Medical Center on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022 in Fullerton, CA.Health

    Omicron drives U.S. deaths higher than in fall’s delta wave

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • Relatives of Luis Enrique Rodriguez, who died of COVID-19, visit where he was buried on a hill at the El Pajonal de Cogua Natural Reserve, in Cogua, north of Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. Rodriguez died May 14, 2021. Relatives bury the ashes of their loved ones who died of coronavirus and plant a tree in their memory. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)Health

    COVID-19 death toll tops 5 million in less than 2 years

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • In this September 2021 photo provided by NYU Langone Health, a surgical team at the hospital in New York examines a pig kidney attached to the body of a deceased recipient for any signs of rejection.Health

    Scientists successfully attach a pig’s kidney to a human body in quest to use animal organs for transplants

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
  • FILE – In this Sept. 21, 2021, file photo, Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse Maggie Bass, right, injects a COVID-19 vaccine into an arm in Jackson, Miss. A survey of Americans on President Joe Biden’s plan to require most workers to get either vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 finds a deep and familiar divide: Democrats are overwhelmingly for it, while most Republicans are against it according to a poll released Thursday, Sept. 30, by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)Health

    Poll: Biden’s vaccine mandate (unsurprisingly) splits Americans on party lines

    By Carla K. Johnson, The Associated Press, and others