Health

Here’s what you need to know: The drugmaker Moderna spells out how it is conducting the late-stage trial of its coronavirus vaccine. Fewer people filed for state jobless claims in the U.S., even as jobless ranks remain high. Trump contradicts the C.D.C. chief’s testimony on masks and vaccines. Stressing the …

Well, does it? We’re all going to be putting food in our bodies just about every day for the rest of our lives. Most of us will do it several times a day. We’ll chew it, send it down the esophagus into our stomach, and expose it to gastric juices …

The Senate Appropriations Committee conducts a hearing to review coronavirus response efforts with Robert R. Redfield, the director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.CreditCredit…Erin Scott/Pool via REUTERS Here’s what you need to know: In a reversal, the Big Ten Conference will try to play football in 2020. An …

A Chicago-area rabbi, who formerly owned a nursing home chain at the heart of the biggest default in the history of a federal mortgage-guarantee program, has been indicted by federal authorities on charges he bilked millions of dollars from investors. The indictment against Zvi Feiner and a business partner, Erez …

When Mark asked me to write a post about the toll the pandemic is taking on mental health and relationships, I didn’t want simply to detail the ways it’s hard to live through a pandemic. Nor did I want to throw a bunch of statistics at you about how many …

Today we welcome a post by guest author Ashleigh VanHouten, health and nutrition journalist, public speaker, certified health coach, and host of the Muscle Maven Radio podcast. Here, she explains why we’re missing out if we’re only eating boring boneless cuts of meat from the grocery store, and makes the …

Here’s what you need to know: High school parties force some Northeast schools in the U.S. to delay the return to classes. Trump defends his indoor rally, but some aides are concerned. L.A. begins a testing program expected to be among the most comprehensive U.S. school-based initiatives. A federal judge …

Before the pandemic, it was not unusual for Tiffany Foy and a team of other dental hygienists to visit schools in rural and urban parts of Oregon to treat the teeth of thousands of children in a year. Many of the children they examined had cavities, painful abscesses and “big …

This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: Thousands attend a Trump rally indoors as others ask why he played down the virus threat. Scientists are alarmed by companies’ secrecy around vaccine clinical trials. A refugee camp in Greece on virus lockdown was …