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The coronavirus pandemic has seen a drop in heart attacks and other medical emergencies.

Dr. Tom Frieden, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, laid out "10 plain truths" about Covid-19 on Wednesday as he spoke at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on the pandemic response.

Blood thinning drugs could help save some patients who are the most severely affected by the new coronavirus, doctors reported Wednesday.

As health care systems focus on fighting the pandemic, many have halted nonessential and non-emergency services. But people still need medical care for other reasons. What should you do if you need a doctor For some, the answer lies in telemedicine.

During a time when many of us are stress eating or simply enjoying an extra glass of wine or scoop of ice cream to savor what we can these days, waking up to Adele's celebratory Instagram birthday picture and her shockingly smaller size might come as unwelcome news.

Researchers in the UK said Wednesday they have seen an "unprecedented cluster" of eight children with rare inflammatory problems amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Waking up with a slight headache that becomes painful enough to hinder daily life is the experience of many who suffer from migraines.

Moves by countries to reopen schools that were shut to prevent the spread of coronavirus could risk a second wave of infections, some studies suggest.

A New York doctor who's been treating coronavirus patients says she's still reeling days after getting a devastating letter: Her green card application was denied.

At least five US teams have cloned antibodies to Covid-19, paving the way for cutting-edge treatments that could be what one researcher calls "an immunity bridge" before a vaccine comes along.

Most Americans have never had to wear a mask for their health before, let alone while they shop for groceries or go for a run. So, even as businesses or states increasingly require them, rebellion is natural -- to a degree, says Dr. David Aronoff, director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Division of Infectious Diseases and professor of medicine.

Health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic would have some of their student loan debt forgiven under a new bill introduced in Congress.

It was after midnight when Leslie Rowe woke up on April 11. Her 9-year-old son, Zaiden, was in tears, saying he had an intense pain in his groin.

When Christy Mitchell's mini-Aussiedoddle puppies, Ellie and Bosun, began sneezing and having diarrhea, she knew she had to take them to the vet. She couldn't let her fragile 10-year-old labradoodle Jake, already in poor health, catch a virus or parasite.

He oversaw the public health response to a pandemic.

There's new evidence more African Americans may be dying from coronavirus in the United States than whites or other ethnic groups, according to a new study.

Around 1.4 million more people could die of tuberculosis (TB) by 2025 due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the fight against the infection, predicts new research.

One of the most useful things about our minds is that they can in some moods allow us to step outside of ourselves -- and consider our death from a wholly dispassionate perspective, as if it were someone else who would have to go through the event and as if we could understand it in the same way that a stranger four centuries from now might, in other words, as if it might not in the end be such a big deal at all, just an inevitable return to an atomic mulch from which our life was only ever a brief and unlikely spasm.

Covid-19 is a respiratory illness, meaning if a person is infected, the condition of their respiratory system is one determinant of how they'll fare with the disease.