As someone with a serious genetic respiratory disease, I felt an overwhelming sense of joy and relief to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this past spring. I...
VAN HORN, Texas — Hollywood’s Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, blasted into space Wednesday in a convergence of science fiction and science reality, reaching t...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Cross-country traveler Gabby Petito was strangled, a Wyoming coroner announced Tuesday.
Petito, 22, died three to four weeks before her body was found S...
Older adults without heart disease shouldn’t take daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, an influential health guidelines group said in prelim...
FDA advisers meet this week
WASHINGTON — With many Americans who got Pfizer vaccinations already rolling up their sleeves for a booster shot, millions of others who recei...
WASHINGTON — For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized an electronic cigarette, saying the vaping device from R.J. Reynolds can help smo...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The county government that is home to Florida’s capital was fined $3.5 million on Tuesday by state health officials for requiring its employees to ge...
WASHINGTON — Members of the House on Tuesday pushed through a short-term increase to the nation’s debt limit, ensuring the federal government can continue fully paying i...
New case rate is lowest in U.S.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s coronavirus death toll reached another once-unfathomable milestone — 70,000 people — on Monday as the st...
Holiday brings up division
Monday’s federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus highlighted the ongoing divide between those who view the explorer as a representati...
