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Un cartel de la empresa de biotecnología Biogen, Inc. se ve en un edificio en Cambridge, Massachusetts, el 18 de marzo de 2017.

‘Sólo quiero una oportunidad para luchar’

April 8, 2021 at 11:22 a.m.

Lisa Stockman-Mauriello se está muriendo. Tiene una última ambición: vivir lo suficiente para ver a sus tres hijos graduarse este año, de la secundaria, la preparatoria y la universidad. Ella...

A sign for biotechnology company Biogen, Inc. is seen on a building in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Despite ‘Right to Try’ law, experimental drugs still often elude patients: ‘I just want a fighting chance’

April 7, 2021 at 11:12 a.m.

Lisa Stockman-Mauriello is dying. She has one last ambition: to live long enough to see her three sons graduate this year — from middle school, high school and college. She...

Unemployment claims| <a href=https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf>Initial unemployment claims seasonally adjusted</a> (week ending May 23, 2020): 2,123,000</p> |

<p>More than 2.1 million people filed a new unemployment claim for the week ending May 23. It indicates that companies that retained their staff through March and April may have needed to close in mid-May, or may have faced a slowdown that affected their ability to keep people employed.</p>

Mass COVID-19 vaccination gets a dry run in a Louisiana parking lot

November 23, 2020 at 9:42 a.m.

NEW YORK — A COVID-19 vaccine may be months from reaching millions of Americans. Getting all those shots into arms will be a monumental task. Shreveport, Louisiana, is getting ready...

Esta fotografía muestra las oficinas de Pfizer en Puurs, Bélgica, el lunes 9 de noviembre de 2020. (AP Foto/Virginia Mayo)

Amid hope for Pfizer vaccine, states grapple with distribution

November 10, 2020 at 3:04 p.m.

A COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. may be on the horizon, but the cost of distributing vaccines across all 50 states and who will pay for that operation remains a...

US President Donald Trump speaks during a Make America Great Again rally at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Opa Locka, Florida on November 2, 2020.

Fauci is tough to fire despite Trump crowd’s pleas

November 3, 2020 at 9:39 a.m.

WASHINGTON — As a career civil servant, Anthony Fauci is not an easy man to fire, despite the pleas of a crowd of Donald Trump supporters chanting at a weekend...

FDA threatens to force vaccine-safety disclosures if makers balk

October 7, 2020 at 9:30 a.m.

A top Food and Drug Administration official warned vaccine makers that the agency could call upon rarely used powers to disclose significant safety issues, after being asked about a month-old...

A man gets a flu shot at a health facility in Washington, DC January 31, 2020. - The weekly US influenza surveillance report from the Centers for Disease Controle (CDC) reports that flu activity remains high in week 4, ending January 25, 2020 and increased over the past two weeks. The CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 19 million flu illnesses in the US, 180,000 hospitalizations and 10,000 deaths from flu. Flu vaccine effectiveness estimates are not available yet this season. (Photo by EVA HAMBACH / AFP) (Photo by EVA HAMBACH/AFP via Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Flu season will be a test run for the US’s biggest-ever vaccine campaign

September 21, 2020 at 2:09 p.m.

This fall, the U.S. will need to vaccinate huge numbers of Americans in the middle of a public-health crisis. It will also be a valuable dry run should a coronavirus...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has begun recommending that people wear cloth masks when out in public, particularly in high-risk areas or in situations where social distancing is not possible. It's important to know how to do so in a manner that is effective, however, and this guide will help inform you on how to properly wear a face mask.

Employers find testing employees more trouble than it’s worth

July 7, 2020 at 11:14 a.m.

From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers are wrestling with workplace safety in the age of Covid-19...

A young child wears a protective mask and is covered in plastic while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital Airport on January 30, 2020 in Beijing, China. The number of cases of a deadly new coronavirus rose to over 7000 in mainland China Thursday as the country continued to lock down the city of Wuhan in an effort to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like disease which medicals experts have confirmed can be passed from human to human.

Yes, younger people are falling seriously ill from COVID-19

March 19, 2020 at 1:14 p.m.

New evidence from Europe and the U.S. suggests that younger adults aren't as impervious to the novel coronavirus that's circulating worldwide as originally thought. Despite initial data from China that...

Park districts, YWCA look to fill the child-care gaps during spring break

May 23, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

Spring break may be a child's dream, but it can be a working parent's nightmare. Neither North Chicago Community Unit School District 187 nor Waukegan Community Unit School District 60...

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