Boat traffic picks up on Labor Day weekend, and the Safe Boating Campaign offers some safety reminders for those leaving shore. “No matter your age, wear a life jacket from the moment you reach the dock and...

It’s still not OK to kiss your chickens or your ducklings — you could catch a salmonella infection from barnyard birds. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has offered that warning before, and now an...

Top U.S. health officials have reportedly warned the White House to curtail its plans to offer COVID-19 booster shots to Americans later this month. Leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for...

A new coronavirus variant called Mu that may be able to evade existing antibodies, including those from vaccines, is under close watch by U.S. health officials. The variant hasn’t taken extensive hold in the United States at...

An ongoing study of more than 6 million Americans found no serious side effects linked to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. “These results from our safety surveillance are reassuring,” said Dr. Nicola Klein, director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine...

Miami publicist Robin Diamond is “step-obsessed.” She aims for 10,000-plus steps every day using her Apple watch and even bought a treadmill during the COVID-19 quarantine to make sure she reaches her daily goal. The 43-year-old has...

Opposition is mounting among U.S. and international health experts against President Joe Biden’s push to make COVID-19 booster shots available later this month. The scientific evidence simply isn’t there to support booster shots, and those doses would...

As the school year gets underway across the United States, new data shows that coronavirus cases among children are climbing. Since the pandemic began, children have represented 14.8% of total cases, but for the week ending Aug....

Here are some of HealthDay’s top stories for Friday, Sept. 3: Experts push back on rush for COVID booster shots. The White House has already set Sept. 20 as the start of a rollout of COVID-19 vaccine...

COVID-19 care is likely to get more expensive for Americans with the expiration of insurers’ temporary waivers on costs associated with treating the illness. Earlier in the pandemic, patients didn’t have their normal co-payments or deductibles for...