ATLANTA (AP) — Three Democratic U.S. senators from states that have refused to expand Medicaid want the federal government to set up a mirror plan to provide health insurance coverage to people in those states. MORE
Bessie Lacks and her grandson Jermaine Jackson of Kalamazoo, Michigan, were overwhelmed with emotion when they received their Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations earlier this spring. Not just because they were being vaccinated or because they were MORE
Peloton recalled all of its Tread+ and Tread treadmills on Wednesday following a fight with the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recommendation to do so. The CPSC said that there has been one child death and MORE
The Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that it will begin the process of banning menthol flavored cigarettes and all flavored cigars, stopping short of including menthol flavored e-cigarettes. The agency says the move MORE
The Republican governor made the statement as the state legislature is considering a bill to legalize the use of cannabis if recommended by a health care practitioner. The legislation restricts the form of consumption to oils, pills or tinctures, MORE
Infrastructure failures following bitterly cold temperatures caused dozens of water mains to burst and freeze, leaving thousands without running water for weeks When the extreme cold first touched the South in mid-February, Texas officials ― MORE
A new and always fatal disease that has been killing chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Sierra Leone for years has been reported for the first time by an international team of scientists led by MORE
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) had some sort of dental malfunction during his Tuesday press conference. In a video first posted by The Recount, what appears to be a tooth falls out of Gohmert’s gums mid-speech. MORE
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s effort to educate the public on the coronavirus pandemic has earned him scores of admirers, but his work on the global HIV/AIDS crisis saw him cheered on Tuesday by one star-studded fan MORE
One week after voters chose not to reelect Donald Trump to another term as president, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a case that centers on a long-held goal of Trump and other MORE
Most of the signatories are among the 20 worst countries to be a woman according to the Women, Peace and Security Index established by Georgetown University. None of the top twenty countries on the Georgetown index – MORE
Those ‘Democrat’ ‘anarchist’ cities that Trump rails about all the time may lose billions of dollars in funding for coronavirus relief, HIV treatment, screenings for newborns according to documents obtained by POLITICO. New York, Portland, MORE
“New York (CNN Business) Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, has agreed to plead guilty to three federal criminal charges for its role in creating the nation’s opioid crisis and will pay more than $8 billion and MORE
Amid a continued rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the state of Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Wednesday that a statewide mask mandate will go into effect beginning Thursday at 6 p.m. All Ohioans MORE
PhRMA Says Law Is Unconstitutional Medscape: The US drug industry trade association PhRMA is suing the state of Minnesota in an attempt to overturn a law that requires insulin makers to provide an emergency supply to individuals MORE
Texas Gov is asking people to wear masks, but six days ago mayors from nine cities wrote him a letter saying the number one impediment to mask-wearing in the state is his executive order banning MORE
2018 data released Army & Marine Corps infantry and gun crews, Air Force service and supply handlers and Navy electricians or mechanics are among the military jobs that had the highest numbers of suicides in MORE
Some strains of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can survive temperatures of 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit) for an hour, researchers have found. To kill the virus in a laboratory setting, the team MORE
While the Trump administration won’t tell you about it, there is a stable Affordable Care Act market available to those who are newly uninsured and need it. The average monthly premium for ACA coverage was MORE
As of April 7, Germany had reported some 105,000 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. However the country’s death rate from the pandemic remains around 1.5% MORE
In order to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are turning to more bad habits which may make a long term negative impact on their health. Alcohol sales are MORE
The numbers emerging seem to indicate that more young people in the South are dying from COVID-19. Although the majority of coronavirus-related deaths in Louisiana are still among victims over 70 years old, 43 percent MORE
Nursing homes in Michigan and elsewhere are facing an uphill battle against COVID-19, where senior communities are beginning to lose ground. As of last week, 147 nursing homes across 27 states have reported positive cases MORE
Guidance on whether to wear a face mask has been evolving. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently looking at recommending masks be worn whenever we go out. “It is still most important to limit MORE
The COVID Tracking Project obtains, organizes, and publishes high-quality data required to understand and respond to the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. We will do this work until official national sources take over and MORE