If you need medical care in a hospital for something other than COVID, it could be hard to find, depending on where you live. Even as the Omicron surge is declining, it's still undermining care for other health problems.
A significant new study is showing that natural immunity from a previous COVID infection provided the best protection against the Delta variant.
The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to U.S. residents starting next week, now that federal officials are emphasizing their better protection against the omicron variant of COVID-19 over cloth face coverings.
The Biden administration on Tuesday quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially go online.
Ending the cycle of food addiction can seem daunting and overwhelming to many. One doctor says avoiding certain kinds of foods is key and that everyone has the power to end their obsession.
President Biden is expected to send a thousand military medical teams to six states to help hospitals overwhelmed by COVID. As global infections from omicron continue to set new records, there's some encouraging news showing that the variant is not as deadly as the delta strain.
On Monday, the world learned of the so-far successful transplant of a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life. But Dr. R. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention – has called out the animal-to-human transplant procedure, saying "there are several very important issues of medical ethics that even the secular world acknowledges."
With the ongoing pandemic, many people have been battling mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, stress, bitterness, and unforgiveness.
Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically.
As the Omicron variant spreads rapidly, COVID infections are filling some hospitals to capacity, straining over-stretched medical staff. In some places, the situation is so serious that nurses and other workers who have tested positive are being allowed to stay on the job if they have mild cases or no symptoms.