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    Primary Care Doctors Feel Left Out of Vaccine Rollout

    Despite their eagerness to participate, only one of five primary care physicians said they were giving the vaccine to their patients, according to a...

    The Hardship of Social Distancing When Touch Is a Lifeline

    The sun broke through the cream-colored blinds at my mother’s New Jersey home. I felt its warmth on my face before throwing my body...

    Broad Coalition of Health Industry Groups Calls for Obamacare Expansion

    In an unusual display of unity, groups representing nearly all the major players in the American health care system — hospitals, doctors, insurance companies...

    Running Is a Total Body Affair

    Much of this research came from the mind and laboratory of Daniel Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary anatomy at Harvard University and author...

    With Vaccines in More Drugstores, Pharmacies Go on Hiring Sprees

    “Since the vaccine got approved, our numbers have just gone through the roof,” said Scott Knoer, the association’s chief executive.Pharmacy technicians, too, are in...

    College Student’s Simple Invention Helps Nurses Work and Patients Rest

    During his day shift at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Anthony Scarpone-Lambert steps into a patient’s room. The lights are off, but...

    As Biden Pushes for Racial Equity in Vaccination, Data Is Lagging

    “Shortly after we started getting into this vaccination, I started to ask for this data — I wanted it, we needed it, we were...

    Colleges vowed a safer spring, but then students, and variants, arrived.

    With nearly a year of coronavirus experience behind them, leaders at many universities in the United States ushered in the new term pledging not...

    China Scores a Public Relations Win After W.H.O. Mission to Wuhan

    For months, China resisted allowing World Health Organization experts into the country to trace the origins of the global pandemic, concerned that such an...

    Could a Single Vaccine Work Against All Coronaviruses?

    The invention of Covid-19 vaccines will be remembered as a milestone in the history of medicine, creating in a matter of months what had...

    With Mission to China, W.H.O. Tries to Rehabilitate Its Image

    A team of World Health Organization scientists said on Tuesday in China that the coronavirus probably first spread to humans through an intermediate animal...

    Dental Practices Change in the Covid Era

    Ann Enkoji normally enjoys seeing her dental hygienist, but when her dentist’s office in Santa Monica, Calif., canceled her cleaning visit last spring, she...

    Coronavirus Variant Tracker – The New York Times

    Each coronavirus contains nearly 30,000 letters of RNA. This genetic information allows the virus to infect...

    State Capitols Grapple With Mask Mandates Amid Coronavirus

    A Democratic state senator in Ohio walked out of a hearing last week when he saw that dozens of spectators in the room were...

    A Few Covid Vaccine Recipients Have Developed a Rare Blood Disorder

    On Jan. 29, Dr. Bussel sent Ms. Legaspi’s physician, Dr. Niriksha Chandrani, an email labeled “my strong recommendations,” noting that he was “very afraid”...

    Facebook says it plans to remove all posts with false vaccine claims.

    Facebook said on Monday that it plans to remove posts with erroneous claims about vaccines from across its platform, including taking down assertions that...