Health

He's 42. He was healthy. But COVID-19 put him into the ICU and now he says not getting vaccinated was "the biggest regret" of his life.

A Central Texas school district is closing its schools after two teachers died last week of COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a nurse staffing crisis that is forcing many U.S. hospitals to pay top dollar to get the help they need to handle the crush of patients this summer.

Costco appears to be reinstating purchase limits on some items as the U.S. is again inundated with a devastating wave of COVID-19 cases.

Emergency crews in Long Beach can now use sedatives as means of de-escalating certain situations.

Doctors at a Jacksonville hospital said a two-week-old baby was one of two children to die of COVID-19 complications this week.

A deeply divided Supreme Court is allowing a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in force, stripping most women of the right to an abortion in the nation’s second-largest state.

An Apollo Beach father living with leukemia died from COVID-19 last week despite being fully vaccinated, and his son said he hopes his dad’s situation motivates others with health conditions to rethink their risk.

Atrial fibrillation, the most commonly treated heart arrhythmia, involves an irregular heartbeat, per the CDC

Global health leaders say the COVID-19 mu variant is showing signs of some vaccine immunity.

The Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) says more than 220 pediatric hospitals are struggling to contend with the recent wave of child patients infected with COVID-19.

"He bought into all the conspiracy theories that were saying somehow vaccination was a way to infiltrate bad things into your bloodstream, control and freedom. My daughter and I used to tease him all the time and say, ‘You know, there’s no freedom if you’re dead.’"

The Texas law bans abortions around six weeks and authorizes private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone involved in facilitating abortions.

A COVID-19 outbreak has been linked to an Illinois church camp for teens and men’s conference that didn’t require vaccinations or masks, the CDC said.

Fully vaccinated Americans should weigh individual risks given high COVID-19 spread, CDC's Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.

Hawaii’s capital of Honolulu will soon require proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative test at many indoor businesses amid a virus case surge.

Older adults who are childless in the U.S. are more likely to be college educated, working and white than those with children. And their numbers are growing.