Hay fever or virus? For allergy sufferers, a season of worry
MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Associated Press
HAMBURG, Pa. (AP) — The spring breezes of 2020 are carrying more than just tree pollen. There's a whiff of paranoia...
How would overwhelmed hospitals decide who to treat first?
CANDICE CHOI, LORI HINNANT and NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A nurse with asthma, a grandfather with cancer and a homeless man...
‘Calling all scientists’: Experts volunteer for virus fight
ELANA SCHOR
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Wells was looking for a chance to use his scientific training to help fight the coronavirus when...
Age is not the only risk for severe coronavirus disease
LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Older people remain most at risk of dying as the new coronavirus continues its rampage around the...
Relief package billions can’t buy hospitals out of shortages
MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN
Associated Press
The billions of tax dollars headed for hospitals and states as part of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus response...
Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta receives accreditation for medical residency program
MURRIETA – Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta has received accreditation for its three-year family medicine residency program by the Accreditation Council for...
Graphic publications help explain medical conditions to families, health care providers
Mexican physician Dr. Cesar M. Alvarado and comics historian Ron Coleman collaborated for a March 6 San Diego Comic Fest panel called “Graphic Medicine:...
Autism diagnosis more common in the US as racial gap closes
MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Autism has grown slightly more common in the U.S., but a gap in diagnosis of white...
American Red Cross faces severe blood shortage
TEMECULA – The American Red Cross faces a severe blood shortage due to an unprecedented number of blood drive cancellations in response to the...
Can blood from coronavirus survivors treat the newly ill?
LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hospitals are gearing up to test if a century-old treatment used to fight off flu and measles...