Health

A recent study suggests drinking between three to four cups of coffee a day decreases the chances of someone who has chronic liver disease from developing cancer or other more severe illnesses as a result of the disease.

Habitat for Humanity had to limit volunteers over coronavirus concerns. The spike in construction costs, prominently lumber, in the past year has also brought on expenses.

A man in England is believed to have had COVID-19 for about 300 days, the longest recorded so far, according to medical papers.

SCOTUS ruled that millions of dollars in COVID relief money tied up in court should benefit Alaska Natives rather than being spread more broadly.

Danish health officials say at least seven people have tested positive for the coronavirus after attending European Championship soccer games in Copenhagen.

The new policy makes San Francisco the first city or county in California — and probably the U.S. — to mandate COVID vaccinations for all government employees.

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the United States now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the vaccines have been and an indication that daily deaths — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the shots.

“I’ll have you arrested and I’ll inject the vaccine in your butt,” Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to arrest people refusing a COVID-19 shot and inject them with the vaccine himself.

The drugmaker said Thursday that it plans to submit its potential treatment donanemab to the Food and Drug Administration later this year.

The COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group, which presented during the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting Wednesday, said the "data available to date suggest likely association of myocarditis with mRNA vaccination in adolescents and young adults."

The delta variant has been rapidly spreading in countries around the globe. In the U.S., it now makes up at least 20% of COVID-19 cases.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, extended the evictions moratorium until July 31. It had been scheduled to end June 30.

President Joe Biden will visit N. Carolina to urge COVID-19 vaccines in the region as the White House expects to just narrowly miss his July 4 goal.

The variant was detected in 20.6% in samples by June 19, up from nearly 10% two weeks prior

Missouri now leads the nation with the highest rate of new COVID-19 infections.

The NIH announced on Wednesday that it has begun an observational study to better understand how COVID-19 vaccines impact pregnant and postpartum people.

An NIH study suggests that a staggering 16.8 million COVID-19 cases went undiagnosed by July 2020.