U.S. health officials have confirmed a case of monkeypox in a traveler who returned to the U.S. from Nigeria, the CDC said Nov. 17. This marks the second case in the U.S. this year.
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The U.S. preterm birth rate declined slightly for the first time in six years, dropping from 10.2 percent in 2019 to 10.1 percent in 2020, according to a March of Dimes Report Card 2021 executive summary.
Social Science Research Council, an international nonprofit, announced the creation of a three-year, $10 million research project aimed at quantifying the costs and harms of disinformation and misinformation and how to reduce their impact, according to a Nov. 17 press…
.article-date{display: none;} The Times used data from reports of coronavirus cases and deaths by U.S. states and counties. The database includes cases and deaths that have been identified by public health officials as probable coronavirus patients, which means they did…
More than 100,000 Americans died of overdoses in the 12-month period that ended in April, The New York Times reported Nov. 17.
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Michigan, Minnesota and New Hampshire are reporting the highest COVID-19 hospitalization increases over the last two weeks, according to Nov. 17 data tracked by The New York Times.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has enrolled the first participant in it's large-scale study centered on COVID-19's effect on children.
Decrying "the politicization of public health measures, such as masking and vaccination," designed to "protect the public from serious illness, injury, and death," a special Nov. 15 meeting of the American Medical Association's house of delegates adopted a new policy…
A 30-year-old woman from Argentina diagnosed with HIV in 2013 may have "naturally" cleared the virus, according to a study published Nov. 16 in Annals of Internal Medicine.
As Pfizer and BioTech await the FDA's decision on a federal expansion of COVID-19 booster shots for all adults in the U.S., some cities and states have already bolstered eligibility for adults meeting timeline requirements.