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    Medical Errors May Increase Around Daylight Saving Time in the Spring

    Health care workers may make more mistakes in the days following the switch to daylight saving time in the spring.The Mayo Clinic Health System...

    How to Ship a Vaccine at –80°C, and Other Obstacles in the Covid Fight

    Many things will have to work out to end the coronavirus pandemic. Drug companies will have to develop a safe and effective vaccine. Billions...

    Tracking Covid-19 Live Updates: Global Coverage

    The shipment, which was sent from Hong Kong and intercepted by officers at Boston’s International Cargo Port, had an estimated value of $163,200,...

    The New Apple Watch Measures Your Blood Oxygen. Now What?

    The new Apple Watch can be summed up in two words: blood oxygen.The ability to measure your blood’s oxygen saturation — an overall indicator...

    Reproductive Life Span May Affect a Woman’s Heart Risks

    A shorter reproductive life span — the time between menarche and menopause — may be linked to a higher risk for cardiovascular disease.An analysis,...

    Covid-19 Live Updates: New Lockdown Blankets Israel as High Holy Days Arrive

    The country becomes one of the few to impose a second nationwide lockdown. In the U.S., Joe Biden tries to focus the campaign on...

    Navigating the Emotional Turf of Fall Family Gatherings

    As one of 11 siblings, Charity Hoffman is used to spending Christmas with dozens of relatives at her parents’ house in Lansing, Mich. This...

    Many Hospitals Charge More Than Twice What Medicare Pays for the Same Care

    In Indiana, Parkview Health, based in Fort Wayne, also remained one of the most expensive, charging private insurers in 2018 three times what Medicare...

    When Will You Be Able to Get a Coronavirus Vaccine?

    Americans are desperate to know when a coronavirus vaccine will be available to finally curb the pandemic that has already taken nearly 200,000 lives...

    C.D.C. Didn’t Write Testing Guidance Published on Its Website, Officials Say

    A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not...

    Does Wearing Glasses Protect You From Coronavirus?

    And Dr. Maragakis noted that any number of factors could confound the data, and it may be that wearing glasses is simply associated with...

    In an Unlikely Covid Survivor’s Case, More Questions Than Answers

    It was about a week before the chest X-ray. We were on rounds when the nurses called us to his room, yelling through the...

    John Najarian, Pioneering Transplant Surgeon, Dies at 92

    Dr. John S. Najarian, a groundbreaking transplant surgeon who made headlines for taking on difficult cases and who weathered a different type of headline...

    Is Coronavirus Affecting the Hearts of College Athletes?

    Afterward, the researchers analyzed the scans and, using widely accepted diagnostic criteria, concluded that four of the young athletes, representing 15 percent of the...

    Trump Again Scorns Science on Masks and Vaccines

    President Trump urged Republicans to “go for the much higher numbers” in stalled negotiations over another economic recovery package, undercutting his party’s push for...

    The Vikings Were More Complicated Than You Might Think

    Public fascination with the Vikings runs high these days, with several current television series available for bloody binge-watching. But the Vikings have never really...