Health

Scientists have identified a new strain of flu carried by pigs in China that they say has the potential to become a pandemic.

Arizona’s Republican governor has shut down bars, movie theaters, gyms and water parks amid a dramatic resurgence of coronavirus cases.

The coronavirus is spreading too rapidly and too broadly for the U.S. to bring it under control, Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday.

The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating around the world as many countries that reopened their economies see a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said Monday.

Democrats have pushed an election-year package expanding “Obamacare” coverage through the House

Millions of people have been pushed into hunger by the new coronavirus, said the United Nations World Food Program.

The world reached another tragic milestone in the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday: 500,000 COVID-19 related deaths, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.

For months, the bulk of the United States’ coronavirus cases were concentrated in the Northeast — Massachusetts followed New York and New Jersey as the third-hardest-hit state in the nation. But while those states have brought their outbreaks under control, this week outbreaks in the South and Southwest shot up. Florida and Texas were e...

Texas and Florida have clamped down on bars in America’s biggest retreat yet as the nation’s daily number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to an all-time high of 45,300.

Wearing a face mask due to the coronavirus is mandated in Massachusetts but there are a few exceptions – one being medical conditions. A doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital talks about that exception and dispels some of the online rumors of mask wearing.

As an alarming coronavirus resurgence sets records for confirmed cases and hospitalizations across the U.S. South and West, some governors are backtracking or at least pausing the reopening of their states.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to wipe out Obamacare, arguing that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law must be struck down with it.

Close to half a million people who lost their health insurance amid the economic shutdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 have gotten coverage through HealthCare.