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    New Zealand Approves Paid Leave After Miscarriage

    AUCKLAND, New Zealand — New Zealand’s Parliament on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would give couples who suffer a miscarriage or stillbirth three days’...

    Mississippi Will Remove ‘Misleading’ Language About Covid-19 Vaccine

    Bobby Wayne, a retired reverend with prostate cancer and leukemia, had spent a week calling health agencies around his county in Mississippi, trying to...

    Free With Your Covid Shot: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

    The benefits of getting vaccinated against Covid-19 — namely, protection against a dangerous virus — should be obvious by this stage in the pandemic.If...

    Free With Your Covid Shot: Beer, Arcade Tokens and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

    The benefits of getting vaccinated against Covid-19 — namely, protection against a dangerous virus — should be obvious by this stage in the pandemic.If...

    How Much Weight Did We Gain During Lockdowns? 2 Pounds a Month, Study Hints

    The new study analyzed data obtained from 269 participants who were involved in an ongoing cardiology study, the Health eHeart Study. They volunteered to...

    Why It Pays to Think Outside the Box on Coronavirus Tests

    “The surprising thing is just how robust that finding is in the face of some pretty plausible variations,” said A. David Paltiel, a professor...

    As People Reflect on Their Bodies, Museums Turn to Artists for Answers

    Many artists with chronic illnesses or disabilities feared the worst when the pandemic started. Like those who are immunocompromised or have underlying conditions, accessing...

    Is Coffee Good for Us? Maybe Machine Learning Can Help Figure It Out.

    Should you drink coffee? If so, how much? These seem like questions that a society able to create vaccines for a new respiratory virus...

    Too Much High-Intensity Exercise May Be Bad for Your Health

    During week two, the riders added a third HIIT session and ramped up the length of some of their intervals to a draining eight...

    Some Covid-19 Patients Say They’re Left With Ringing Ears

    The suicide of Kent Taylor, the founder and chief executive of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain, has drawn attention to a possible link between...

    Vaccinated People Can Get Covid, but It’s Most Likely Very Rare

    More than two months after he was fully vaccinated against Covid, a doctor in New York woke up with a headache and a dull,...

    AstraZeneca’s Latest Stumble Again Clouds European Vaccinations

    LONDON — The announcement this week that the AstraZeneca shot, the workhorse of global vaccine rollouts, had achieved nearly 80 percent efficacy in a...

    U.S. Health Officials Question AstraZeneca Vaccine Trial Results

    Federal health officials said early Tuesday that results from a U.S. trial of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine may have relied on “outdated information” that “may...

    Many metrics in the U.S. are improving, though the threat of a new surge still looms.

    Positive trends in pandemic statistics in the United States are easy to distrust. After all, the country went through two false dawns last year,...

    They Had Mild Covid. Then Their Serious Symptoms Kicked In.

    Dr. Allison P. Navis, a neuro-infectious disease specialist at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City who was not involved in the study,...

    How to Virtually Become a Doctor

    Jerrel Catlett’s eyes narrowed on the large intestine, a gloppy, glow stick-like object whose color matched the stool stored inside of it. He chose...