Health

How businesses are handling vaccine rules with no federal mandates

By Hannah Grabenstein, Gabrielle Hays, Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado

In the absence of federal rules, employers across the country have found themselves navigating vaccine politics as state, local and national decision-makers offer their own, sometimes conflicting, guidelines.

WATCH: White House COVID task force holds news briefing

By News Desk

The White House COVID task force holds news briefing on Wednesday as several states and jurisdictions continue to lift mask mandates instead to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Birth control is now available in North Carolina without a prescription. That doesn't mean everyone can afford it

By Mariel Padilla, The 19th

The state joined more than a dozen other states, but access still depends in part on whether insurance companies will cover the cost.

Senate confirms Biden's FDA pick after narrow vote

By Matthew Perrone, Kevin Freking, Associated Press

The Senate has narrowly confirmed President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration, filling a position that had been open for more than a year.

How Galileo's groundbreaking works got banned

By Dr. Howard Markel

Born on this day 458 years ago, Galileo refused to be silent about how the solar system worked.

New York City fires more than 1,000 workers over COVID vaccine mandate

By Michelle L. Price, Associated Press

The mayor's office said Monday that 1,430 workers lost their jobs, representing less than one percent of the 370,000-person city workforce. …

Canadian trucker blockades impact production on both sides of the border

By Paul Solman, Ryan Connelly Holmes

Truckers and protesters blocked a key border crossing between the U.S. and Canada for a fifth straight day. A court injunction issued late Friday ordered an end to that blockade. But for now trucks are blocking three border crossings, stopping…

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Canadian judge orders an end to 5-day blockade at border bridge protest

By Rob Gillies, Mike Householder, Associated Press

A Canadian judge has ordered protesters at the Ambassador Bridge over the U.S-Canadian border to end the 5-day-old blockade that has disrupted the flow of goods between the two countries and forced the auto industry on both sides to roll…

More data needed on Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5, FDA says

By Lauran Neergaard, Matthew Perrone, Associated Press

The Food and Drug Administration had urged Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to apply for authorization of extra-low doses of its vaccine for the youngest children before clinical studies were finished. On Friday, the FDA reversed course.