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    Covid Deaths Lowered in Trial of Tocilizumab and Sarilumab

    “Organizations are encouraged to consider prescribing either tocilizumab or sarilumab in the treatment of patients admitted to intensive care with Covid-19 pneumonia,” the new...

    Weekly Health Quiz: Coconut Oil, Coronavirus and Exercise Goals

    Test your knowledge of this week’s health news. Source link

    Juggling My Children, Their Alcoholic Sitter and My Own Sobriety

    The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says she should stay. Being of use is important, it says. The fellowship of another alcoholic is crucial,...

    To Create a Healthy Habit, Find an Accountability Buddy

    Find an accountability buddy. Choose a friend who wants to achieve a similar goal and make a plan. Accountability might mean meeting each other...

    The virus spread faster in counties where large universities held classes in person.

    The spread of the coronavirus accelerated sharply in U.S. counties where large universities held classes in person last fall, federal health researchers reported on...

    One 18-Hour Flight, Four Coronavirus Infections

    The versions of the coronavirus that all seven carried were virtually identical genetically — strongly suggesting that one person among them initiated the outbreak....

    Los Angeles County memo responds to Covid-19 surge

    With hospitals in Los Angeles County swamped with Covid-19 patients, a memo that went out to the county’s ambulance crews last week caused public...

    How Gamaleya’s Sputnik V Vaccine Works

    The Gamaleya Research Institute, part of Russia’s Ministry of Health, developed a coronavirus vaccine...

    Swimming With My Shirt Off

    When I was 13, going to public pools was painful.I loved the water, but I was convinced that dozens of judging eyes were on...

    The Covid Balancing Act for Doctors

    My wife’s parents have led a relatively monastic existence since about mid-March.Both are in their 80s and live independently in rural Pennsylvania, maintaining a...

    Second doses have begun for the earliest U.S. vaccine recipients.

    After Sandra Lindsay became the first person in the United States to receive a Covid-19 vaccination outside a clinical trial, something unexpected happened: She...

    Blood Plasma Reduces Risk of Severe Covid-19 if Given Early

    It will be difficult “to find and diagnose them within that vanishingly small window,” said Dr. Ilan Schwartz, an infectious disease physician at the...

    Set Your Exercise Goals High, but Not Too High

    They began by recruiting 20 overweight, adult men and women who were, at the start, inactive but healthy enough to walk. They outfitted the...

    Why Self-Care Isn’t Selfish – The New York Times

    Day 4Lean In to Self-CareSelf-care is different for everyone. Here are five self-care exercises to help you make yourself a top priority in 2021....

    Running low on oxygen, emergency workers in Los Angeles County are told to administer the minimum necessary.

    California’s daily coronavirus case tallies remain around four times what they were during the state’s summer surge, and officials predict that the aftereffects of...

    A pharmacist accused of sabotaging vaccine doses is a conspiracy theorist, the police say.

    A pharmacist who was arrested on charges that he intentionally sabotaged more than 500 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine at a Wisconsin hospital was...