While life has largely returned to normal for most people, COVID-19 and its after-effects are still around. Reporter Meg Wingerter is working on an article about how people with long COVID are recovering, or not
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F.D.A. Ends Ban on Blood Donations From Gay and Bisexual Men
The News The Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that it had formally ended the agency’s wide-ranging prohibition on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, a longstanding policy that had been denounced as
Read moreAs Covid Emergency Ends, Surveillance Shifts to the Sewers
When the Covid-19 public health emergency expires in the United States on Thursday, the coronavirus will not disappear. But many of the data streams that have helped Americans monitor the virus will go dark. The
Read moreDoctors Have Long Warned That Chokeholds Are Deadly
When a subway rider in New York used a chokehold that ended up killing a 30-year-old homeless man, Jordan Neely, he was employing a technique that many neurologists warn is so dangerous that it should
Read moreColorado’s wild virus year wasn’t — and was — the new normal
With sniffles as a near-constant companion this fall and winter, and previously obscure viruses becoming household names in Colorado, you’re not alone if you wondered whether this past year was normal. Some pathogens — like
Read moreEli Lilly Trial Finds Alzheimer’s Drug Can Slow Progress of Disease
The drug manufacturer Eli Lilly announced on Wednesday that a clinical trial of an experimental Alzheimer’s drug showed it can slow progress of the feared disease and allow patients to have more time when they
Read moreEmergency Room Visits Have Risen Sharply for Young People in Mental Distress, Study Finds
The News Mental health-related visits to emergency rooms by children, teenagers and young adults soared from 2011 to 2020, according to a report published on Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The
Read moreResearchers Identify Possible New Risk for Breast Cancer
The News Scientists have long known that dense breast tissue is linked to an increased risk of breast cancer in women. A study published on Thursday in JAMA Oncology adds a new twist, finding that
Read moreCOVID hospitalized twice as many Coloradans as flu since October
Though COVID-19 didn’t push Colorado hospitals to the brink this fall and winter, the virus still hospitalized more than twice as many people as the flu, and it’s not clear whether that’s going to be
Read more6 children, 2 adults taken to hospital after people fall ill at eastern Pennsylvania school; similar incident happened in October
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Multiple people fell ill at Lehigh Christian Academy on Thursday morning, with six children and two adults taken to the hospital for evaluation and treatment, emergency officials said. Lehigh County Dispatch received
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