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    Spike Lee’s Next Project: A Viagra Musical

    Spike Lee has directed films about a Black detective’s quest to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, a bombing of an Alabama church and the...

    Children in U.S. May Miss 9 Million Vaccine Doses in 2020, Report Warns

    Children in the United States are on pace this year to miss nine million vaccine doses for measles, polio and other highly contagious diseases,...

    How the Out-of-Control Pandemic Is Speeding the Hunt for Vaccines

    The coronavirus is spreading out of control in the United States, overwhelming health systems and killing more than 1,100 Americans a day. But there...

    The Greatest Gift to Loved Ones This Covid Winter? Don’t Infect Others

    “Low humidity during the winter enables the influenza virus to live longer indoors, and this together with spending more time indoors and in closer...

    Exercise After Covid-19? Take It Slow

    Slowly return to exercise. Even if you had only mild symptoms, with no chest pain or shortness of breath, you should still wait until...

    Americans Are More Willing to Take a Coronavirus Vaccine, Poll Suggests

    In a sign that Americans are becoming less hesitant to take a coronavirus vaccine, a Gallup poll released on Tuesday showed that 58 percent...

    WHO | Avian Influenza A(H5N1)

    The Ministry of Health in Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) reported a human case of...

    Inside the Chaotic, Cutthroat Gray Market for N95 Masks

    The widespread belief, in the face of its protestations to the contrary, that the Trump administration was appropriating P.P.E. shows the extent to which...

    Organize the Garage – The New York Times

    Days spent at home have moved even the most muddled people to organize. The spice rack now displays alphabetically ordered bottles in neat rows....

    Heat Waves May Be Bad for Your Pregnancy

    Heat waves may lead to poor pregnancy outcomes, a review of studies has found.The analysis, in BMJ, included 70 studies in 24 countries, and...

    Vaccine Unproven? No Problem in China, Where People Scramble for Shots

    Ethan Zhang needed to get back to work. Work was in Ivory Coast, however, and since January the global coronavirus outbreak had stranded the...

    Albert R. Jonsen, 89, Dies; Brought Medical Ethics to the Bedside

    He and Dr. Andereck went on to establish a clinical ethics consultation service as part of Sutter Health, a large Northern California network of...

    Is Moderna in Operation Warp Speed?

    Very much so. The United States government provided $1 billion in support for the design and testing of the Moderna vaccine. Researchers at the...

    How do Moderna’s early results compare with Pfizer’s?

    Pfizer provided less detail in its announcement last week on Nov. 9 than Moderna did on Monday, Nov. 16. Pfizer’s outside board of experts...

    Is it safe to go to a holiday get-together?

    “This is not going to dig us out of what’s ahead this next month,” Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at the University of Florida, warned...

    Spain’s Other Covid Casualties: Undetected Cancer Cases

    MADRID — Last March, as the coronavirus was tearing across Spain, Lídia Bayona Gómez started to suffer bouts of vomiting and coughing.A nursing home...