As the weather has warmed in my Midwestern town, my neighborhood is full of children on bicycles pretending to be riding through the Wild West. I can't walk down the sidewalk without stepping on chalk drawings or hopscotch boards. There are children jumping rope and playing ball. In the eight years I've lived here, I've never witnessed this before. As a clinical psychologist who studies children's friendships, I am fascinated by this development.
More than 28 million Californians live in counties where restaurant dining rooms, bars and other indoor facilities are being told to stay shut or close as the number of coronavirus cases continue to worry state officials.
If you were one of Americans who decided to self-isolate before you were required to by state or local mandate, good for you. According to a new study, you saved lives.
When it comes to safety, families may not realize that there are health risks associated with setting off fireworks. In fact, some American consumer fireworks release toxins including lead that are harmful for both humans and animals, according to a new study.
The number of active-duty military personnel infected with the novel coronavirus has more than doubled in the last three weeks, according to new figures published by the Defense Department.
Peyton Chesser wasn't taking chances when the coronavirus pandemic locked down the country in March. The 23-year-old Houston woman stayed home, even conceding grocery pickups to her roommate.
The United States has been allocated almost all of the next few months' supply of remdesivir, the only drug that's known to work directly against Covid-19.
As colleges across the country shut down their campuses, students of all ages found themselves scrambling to get home. But for some, that was not an option. Suddenly, bustling campuses became ghost towns as some students learned to quarantine on their own. In the next installment of "Generation Resilient," we asked two students to share their experiences with CNN Opinion. The views expressed in this commentary are their own.
Years before George Floyd's murder by police officer Derek Chauvin in the streets of Minneapolis propelled people around the world to protest systemic racism, Melissa Giraud and Andrew Grant-Thomas had been working on similar goals, in a different way.
A glove that translates sign language into speech in real time has been developed by scientists -- potentially allowing deaf people to communicate directly with anyone, without the need for a translator.
Coronavirus is surging around the country just as many school districts are trying to finalize what classes will look like for 56 million students in the new academic year.
Officials in California and Florida -- two states where coronavirus cases are jumping -- are taking different approaches toward reopening amid spikes in infections.
Betty and Curtis Tarpley were together for most of their lives -- they went to the same high school in Illinois, met and fell in love in California as adults, got married, and raised two kids.
Governors in the northeast, once considered the US epicenter of the coronavirus, are tightening restrictions in their states for travelers from areas of the country now seeing upward trends in positive coronavirus cases and hospitalizations.
When Ahmad Ayyad woke up, he was delirious. He didn't realize where he was, why there was a tube down his throat, or how long it had been since he last fed his dog.
