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Much has been made about the exodus from California’s Bay Area, with thousands of residents — empowered by the option to work remotely and fed up with high housing costs — moving out of the region...
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Former Connecticut lawmaker gets 27 months in prison for stealing $1.2M in...
Michael DiMassa, a former Democratic state representative and West Haven, Connecticut, political insider who stole about $1.2 million of the city’s pandemic relief money and blew much of it gambling,...
View ArticleAre you getting billed for COVID-19 tests you didn’t order? Here’s what you...
By Gisselle Medina, Los Angeles Times If 2022 was the year of free COVID-19 test kits, 2023 is shaping up to be the year of fraudulent COVID-19 test kits. Consider what happened to Judy, an 85-year-old...
View ArticleMonica Gandhi’s new book combines lessons from HIV and COVID to better...
UC-San Francisco Infectious disease expert Monica Gandhi has found herself at the center of many heated COVID-19 debates the past three years. But in her new book Endemic: A Post-Pandemic Playbook, she...
View ArticleNew coronavirus subvariant Eris is gaining dominance. Is it fueling an...
Rong-Gong Lin II | (TNS) Los Angeles Times A new coronavirus subvariant, nicknamed Eris, has rapidly risen to prominence nationwide and is now thought to account for more U.S. cases than any of its...
View ArticleCOVID-19 took a toll on heart health and doctors are still grappling with how...
By LAURAN NEERGAARD (AP Medical Writer) ST. LOUIS (AP) — Firefighter and paramedic Mike Camilleri once had no trouble hauling heavy gear up ladders. Now battling long COVID, he gingerly steps onto a...
View ArticleTwo years after catching COVID, patients still risk getting sick
Jason Gale | (TNS) Bloomberg News The risk of new disease, disability and death remains elevated in some patients as long as two years after catching COVID-19, according to a large study showing the...
View ArticleA pre-pandemic infection could explain why some patients develop long COVID
By Rick Sobey, Boston Herald A pre-pandemic common cold coronavirus infection may help set the stage for long COVID, according to Boston researchers who have been looking to explain why some patients...
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The pitch wasn’t just perfect, it was telling. It wasn’t just effective, it was defining. It wasn’t the difference between the Phillies and Marlins in the NL Wild Card Series, but it was a fitting...
View ArticleMen die nearly 6 years before women, as US life expectancy gap widens
The life expectancy of American women is now 5.8 years longer than that of men, a trend that researchers say is driven by the COVID pandemic and the opioid overdose epidemic. U.S. men dying nearly 6...
View ArticleRift over when to use N95s puts health workers at risk again
By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News Three years after more than 3,600 health workers died of COVID-19, occupational safety experts warn that those on the front lines may once again be at risk if the Centers...
View ArticleWith COVID on the rise, your at-home test may be taking longer to show a...
Rong-Gong Lin II | (TNS) Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — With COVID-19 rising this winter, it’s getting more complicated to discern whether you are infected. Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, regional chief of...
View ArticleLong COVID creates changes in the blood, aiding detection, reports new study
An international team of scientists has found distinct changes in the blood of people with long COVID, suggesting a potential strategy to diagnose and perhaps treat a mysterious condition that takes...
View Article‘Emergency’ or not, COVID is still killing people. Here’s what doctors advise...
Amy Maxmen | (TNS) KFF Health News With around 20,000 people dying of COVID in the United States since the start of October, and tens of thousands more abroad, the COVID pandemic clearly isn’t over....
View ArticleWastewater tests show COVID infections surging, but pandemic fatigue limits...
Tim Henderson | Stateline.org (TNS) Although it’s spotty and inconsistent in many places, wastewater testing is pointing to a new wave of COVID-19 infections, with as many as one-third of Americans...
View ArticleHere’s why some high-risk patients aren’t getting drugs to combat COVID
Emily Alpert Reyes | Los Angeles Times (TNS) As the toll from the COVID-19 pandemic continued to mount, antiviral medications such as Paxlovid were hailed by health officials as an important way to...
View Article‘If it’s COVID, Paxlovid’? For many, it should be easier to get. Here’s what...
Rong-Gong Lin II | Los Angeles Times (TNS) The commercials make it sound so simple: “If it’s COVID, Paxlovid.” But the slogan, catchy though it may be, belies a harsher reality that some public health...
View ArticleMary Lou Retton got $2 million in divorce but couldn’t ‘afford’ health...
A report this week is likely to add to questions about Mary Lou Retton’s claim that she couldn’t “afford” health insurance — a situation that prompted her daughters to launch an online fundraising...
View ArticleFitness trackers find new symptom of depression — body temperature
Irene Wright | (TNS) The Charlotte Observer When a group of California researchers started a COVID-19 study in 2020 using fitness tracking rings, they didn’t know they would make a leap forward for an...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins study: Results from rapid COVID tests done at home can be trusted
People can test themselves about as accurately at home with rapid antigen coronavirus tests as health care professionals using the same tests, according to a Johns Hopkins Medicine-led study published...
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