Health

WATCH: How to take care of your mental health as the world returns to ‘normal’

By News Desk

Many Americans are facing mental health challenges as they deal with the tumult of the last year and the uncertainties ahead. The PBS NewsHour will take your questions on Friday about the best ways to maintain your mental health in…

The pandemic is leading doctors to rethink unnecessary treatment

By Bruce Alpert, Kaiser Health News

COVID-19 is opening the door for researchers to address a problem that has vexed the medical community for decades: the overtreatment and unnecessary treatment of patients…

Can people vaccinated against COVID-19 still spread the coronavirus?

By Sanjay Mishra, The Conversation

The COVID-19 vaccines are a smash success. But that doesn't mean they keep every vaccinated person completely free of the coronavirus.

Biden asks U.S. intel officials to investigate COVID-19 origin

By Zeke Miller, Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

Biden said Wednesday there is insufficient evidence to conclude "whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident."…

For many pregnant trans people, competent medical care is hard to find

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas

Transgender men and nonbinary people who are pregnant or trying to conceive are more likely than not to face a reproductive health system that fails to provide them with quality care.

House GOP leaders condemn Greene over comments equating mask mandates to Holocaust

By Brian Slodysko, Associated Press

House Republican leaders are forcefully condemning GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia over her comments comparing House COVID-19 safety measures like masks to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.

U.S. to distribute vaccines based on requests as Biden administration looks to beef up international response

By Meredith Lee

The move comes amid slowing demand for vaccines in the United States as more Americans are getting their shots. The Biden administration on Tuesday announced 50 percent of U.S. adults have been fully vaccinated.

WATCH: Collins, Fauci testify on 2022 NIH budget request

By News Desk and Associated Press

U.S. health officials including Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified before the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday on the fiscal year 2022…

Moderna says its COVID-19 shot works in kids as young as 12

By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press

Moderna said Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12, a step that could put the shot on track to become the second option for that age group in the U.S.