Dr. Avenel Joseph, vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, fears that massive layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services will result in increased barriers to accessing healthcare for the nation’s most vulnerable people and children.
A survey of high school students revealed that 55.1% described suffering emotional abuse, 44.2% reported persistent feelings of hopelessness and 9% attempted suicide.
As Covid-19 hospitalization rates surge in the U.S., public health experts are advising a shift from thinking of the crisis as a pandemic to an endemic.
Booster doses of vaccines are very common. They are part of most childhood and adult vaccine series to ensure a person maintains optimal immunity from a disease.
The Covid-19 pandemic is continuing to take a major toll, despite the availability of proven mitigation measures and very effective vaccines, said four subject...
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As the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads across the country, health authorities are concerned about the increase in cases in rural...