The Indian Health Service consists of 26 hospitals, 56 health centers and 32 health stations and provides care to 2.2 million members of the nations tribal communities. The hospitals, scattered across a dozen regions in the country, range in size from four beds to 133. The service has long faced…

The group is hoping to provide access to vaccination records through the SMART Health Cards framework. People without smartphones could receive a printout of a QR code that contains a verifiable vaccine record. Health officials in the US are issuing paper record cards to people who have received a COVID-19…

Throughout the pandemic, one of the biggest unknowns about the coronavirus has been how long people are immune after they catch it and recover. Early indications were that it must provide some immunity, since if multiple infections were possible, they would probably be common. But even a year-plus into the…

LiveUpdated Jan. 14, 2021, 5:59 a.m. ET Jan. 14, 2021, 5:59 a.m. ET Experts from the World Health Organization are in Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged more than a year ago, for an investigation that Beijing has repeatedly impeded. Two members of the group were stopped in Singapore. Heres what…

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(CNN)Nearly a year of ever-changing public safety guidelines with long days cooped up at home are wearing on many people. People have been social distancing, wearing masks and skipping gatherings with friends and family in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The pandemic, however, didn’t stop many from…

Alabama had a lot to celebrate, so football fans in Tuscaloosa did just that: tossing beer bottles, banners and masks; climbing trees, light posts and one another. It was as if the backdrop to the title game, a deadly pandemic, did not exist, even though about 250,000 Americans have been…

Discovering that anyone in the homebut particularly one of the kidsis allergic to the family pet can be upsetting. Our pets are members of our family, so discovering that their mere presence is negatively impacting the health or physical comfort of your child creates a stressful situation. But if it…

Moving forward, Yelp users won’t just be asked whether a business has good food or accepts credit cards the platform is also allowing them to share feedback on whether the staff is wearing masks and enforcing social distancing. Yelp’s head of consumer product Akhil Kuduvalli Ramesh suggested that this is…

One year in, the Covid-19 global health pandemic continues to have something of a dragging effect on many aspects of life, but today a key bellwether for how technology is developing underscored how the industry continues to march on. The number of patents granted in the US in 2020 totaled…