Health

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) -- Through the many phases of the Covid-19 pandemic -- nearly a dozen variants, the introduction of vaccines, the dropping...

The ACIP will meet Thursday to discuss updates on Covid-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness for children ages 5-11 years, CDC guidance on boosters for that age group and the framework for that booster dose.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, found that meat processors' warnings about the nation being on the brink of a meat shortage were not based in fact.

The Food and Drug Administration want to snuff out menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars which are popular with Blacks, but they have a strong supporter in Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network.

When Dallas-based Hardies Fresh Foods executives entered into an arrangement with Hamilton Health Box, it was seen as not only a cost-saving measure but also an investment in the more than 400 employees at the Dallas-based company. During a recent visit to Dallas, Dr. Glenn Davis talked about how the Houston-based company that specializes in mobile clinics is helping companies and their employees along with their families by setting up offices on the premises to provide medical care.

“The mental health of Black American youth “was in crisis long before COVID-19 devastated the world, but no national public health crisis was called.”

Marcus Whitney stands out in Nashville’s $95 billion health care sector as an investor in startups. In addition to co-founding a venture capital firm, he’s organized an annual health tech conference and co-founded the city’s professional soccer club.

Now that the March 12 mask mandate has lifted the requirement to mask up, the public will need to know which places where masks are still required.

The number of NFL employees testing positive per week in December went from about 30 to about 300, most of them players who would have to sit out of practices and games.

Covid rocketed up the list of leading killers in the U.S. like nothing in recent memory.