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LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization is considering changing the way it classifies and describes international epidemics, amid a protracted public debate over whether to… Read More

SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife, Australia’s minister for home affairs and a Chelsea soccer player are among new cases of… Read More

Like many first-time parents, Jon Borgese, a tech executive in Manhattan, had heard the buzz around the Baby Brezza formula maker, a countertop device that automatically dispenses warm b… Read More

(Reuters) – Major sports events around the world which have been hit by the coronavirus outbreak: A man wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus… Read More

Image copyrightGetty Images The government’s decision not to cancel public events over the coronavirus outbreak is “concern… Read More

WASHINGTON/GENEVA (Reuters) – President Donald Trump declared a U.S. national emergency over the quickly spreading coronavirus on Friday, opening the door to more government aid to… Read More

Anxiety is a strange beast.As a psychiatrist, I have learned that anxiety and its close cousin, panic, are both born from fear. As a behavioral neuroscientist, I know that fear’s m… Read More

WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – President Donald Trump declared a U.S. national emergency over the quickly spreading coronavirus on Friday, opening the door to more federal aid to… Read More

MADRID — Just last weekend, about 120,000 people marched through downtown Madrid to celebrate International Women’s Day. Some 60,000 soccer fans filled one of the city’… Read More

SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will declare a national emergency over the fast-spreading coronavirus on Friday, opening the door to more federal aid to… Read More

(Reuters) – The coronavirus is not as bad as the seasonal flu. President Donald Trump is not worried about having had a direct exposure to the virus. The United States is in far bet… Read More

Image copyrightEPA Schools have been closed, sports events cancelled and cultural institutions shut around the world as countries try t… Read More

When Jacob Wang saw reports circulating online recently suggesting that life was getting better in Wuhan, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, he was irate.Mr. Wang, a journalist for… Read More

House passes a sweeping relief package as the coronavirus spreads to 49 states.The House early Saturday morning passed a sweeping relief package to assist people affected by the outbreak… Read More

As he declared a national emergency over the coronavirus outbreak, President Trump attempted to deflect criticisms of his administration’s response to the virus with inaccurate cla… Read More

LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain once said his political hero was the mayor in the film “Jaws,” praising him for defying mass hysteria to keep the beach… Read More

(Reuters) – Major sports events around the world that have been hit by the coronavirus outbreak: FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the c… Read More

Image copyrightGetty Images Ten more people in the UK have died in the last 24 hours after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing t… Read More

MADRID — The Spanish government met in an all-day session on Saturday to decide on strict measures to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus, a day after the country declared… Read More

Among the many lessons of the coronavirus pandemic is how close humans are to the rest of the animal kingdom. We get diseases from other animals, and then we use more animals to figure o… Read More

On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chatta… Read More

When Janet Halloran last saw her primary care physician, the doctor asked whether she had undergone her annual mammogram. Yes, she replied, she had.At 76, Ms. Halloran, a real estate bro… Read More

Image copyrightEmma Russell Coronavirus has plunged the world into uncertainty and the constant news about the pandemic can feel relent… Read More

Image copyrightLAWRENCE LUSTIG/PDC When sports broadcaster Dave Clark was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at the same age as his fathe… Read More

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The White House issued new U.S. coronavirus guidelines on Monday warning Americans to limit social gatherings to 10 or fewer people and urging restau… Read More

(Reuters) – Major sports events around the world that have been hit by the coronavirus outbreak: FILE PHOTO: Olympics – Olympic Flame – Panathenaic Stadium, Athens… Read More

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. states pleaded with the Trump administration on Monday to coordinate a national response to the coronavirus pandemic, as bars and restaurants restricted se… Read More

Although it’s impossible to say how many Americans will die because of the new coronavirus, under a reasonable set of assumptions the number of fatalities could be high — po… Read More

NEW DELHI — Over the weekend in Lucknow, one of India’s bigger cities, young people packed into pubs. Despite the Indian government scrambling to lock things down, few on the… Read More

Bay Area residents are confined to their homes as world leaders tighten restrictions.More than seven million residents in the San Francisco Bay Area have been ordered to confine themselv… Read More

Image copyrightAFP Image caption Les Miserables is among the shows that have closed for the foreseeable fut… Read More

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The White House issued new U.S. coronavirus guidelines on Monday warning Americans to limit social gatherings to 10 or fewer people and urging restau… Read More

20% of adults are infected in 18 months 20% of adults are infected in 12 months 20% of adults are infected in 6 months 40% of ad… Read More

Working at a breakneck pace, a team of hundreds of scientists has identified 50 drugs that may be effective treatments for people infected with the coronavirus.Many scientists are seekin… Read More

YAOUNDE/DAKAR (Reuters) – When a passenger arriving from Brussels at Cameroon’s Yaounde Nsimalen airport on Saturday was found to have a temperature, health officials say he w… Read More

SINGAPORE — Two hours. That’s all the time medical teams in Singapore are given to uncover the first details of how patients contracted the coronavirus and which people they… Read More

Image copyrightAFP All non-urgent operations in England will be postponed from 15 April to free up 30,000 beds to help tackle coronavir… Read More

BANGKOK — For months, many Southeast Asian countries played down the threat posed by the new coronavirus. Some officials said that prayer would keep the disease away. Others expres… Read More

SYDNEY/BEIJING (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of people worldwide were adjusting on Wednesday to once-in-a-generation measures to battle the coronavirus crisis that is not only ki… Read More

Almost a dozen calls with five health care providers over five hours. Two hours of hold music. Two hours in a hospital. Four days of anxiously checking an online portal for results. And… Read More

World leaders vow vast spending, and New Yorkers face the prospect of “shelter in place.” Nations around the world waged a two-front war on Wednesday: fighting the spread… Read More

At a time when the Trump administration is facing intense criticism for its failure to make coronavirus tests available to millions of nervous Americans, remarks by a federal health offi… Read More

By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Monday, March 16, 2020 (Kaiser News) — As the number of coronavirus cases grows in the U.S., we’re hearing a lot about how… Read More

By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, March 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues its relentless spread around the world, the g… Read More

OMAHA — Just a month ago — back when hardly anyone in the United States had tested positive for the coronavirus, back when the federal government spoke hopefully about keepin… Read More

SEOUL – In late January, South Korean health officials summoned representatives from more than 20 medical companies from their lunar New Year celebrations to a conference room tucke… Read More

MADRID/BEIJING (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of people faced a world turned upside down on Wednesday by unprecedented emergency measures against the coronavirus pandemic that is… Read More

Just as the nation’s ability to test for coronavirus is expanding, hospitals and clinics say another obstacle is looming: shortages of testing swabs and protective gear for health… Read More

When Dr. Asaf Bitton looked out from his window in Boston recently, he was shocked by the scene. Although schools, offices and businesses already had shut down to slow the spread of coro… Read More

As the virus spreads, the human toll grows.China reported its first day with no new locally transmitted coronavirus infections, three months after the first case was detected. But the ma… Read More

Image caption Matt Hancock pledged to rush protective personal equipment to frontline NHS staff following concern over short… Read More

For many labs in the U.S., getting results for the coronavirus test can take between two and seven days. But last week, the Cleveland Clinic introduced a test that offers results in just… Read More

LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) – The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned in the new epicentre Europe… Read More

The Open Cities Community Health Center in St. Paul, Minn., is considering shutting its doors, because of a dwindling supply of face masks. Doctors at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis… Read More

LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) – The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned in the new epicenter Europe… Read More

The artist Nate Lewis left his job as a nurse three years ago, but life on the neurocritical intensive care unit produces memories that don’t readily fade. The patients battling st… Read More

“Trying to preserve some sense of normalcy is really important for people’s well-being,” said Dr. Russell G. Buhr, a pulmonologist at U.C.L.A. Health. Maintaining a rou… Read More

NEW YORK (Reuters) – For the last few days, unease and paranoia have followed Ann Ostberg like a black cloud, as the coronavirus swept through the United States, reaching all 50 sta… Read More

I first heard of nutritional drinks in the 1980s, early in my medical training. They were recommended for people struggling to maintain a health… Read More

California’s governor orders residents to “stay at home.”America’s most populous state is ordering its residents to stay at home.Gov. Gavin Newsom of California o… Read More