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About 1.8 million fewer U.S. youth used e-cigarettes compared to last year, though officials noted an alarming uptick in the use of disposable products.

A new study published this week in PLOS Medicine found NSAIDs such as ibuprofen and diclofenac did not have adverse effects in people infected with COVID-19.

A brain-eating amoeba claimed the life of a 13-year-old boy in Florida, according to multiple reports.

The COVID-19 vaccine participant whose unexpected illness put the AstraZeneca trials on pause came down with an inflammatory syndrome known as transverse myelitis, according to a report.

A tick species associated with bats was reported in New Jersey for the first time, researchers say, and humans, pets and livestock could be at risk of infection.

 AstraZeneca's decision to pause its global trials of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate over safety concerns should reassure skeptical Americans that "they are looking very carefully at everybody who is getting the vaccine," New York Medical College Professor Dr. Bob Lahita told “Your World" Wednesday.

Over the past 30 years, health services to prevent or treat causes of child death such as preterm, pneumonia, malaria and complications during birth have helped save millions of lives, the U.N. said.

England is banning social gatherings of more than six people after a spike in coronavirus cases, according to multiple reports. Starting Monday it will be illegal for more than half a dozen people to congregate socially indoors or outdoors.

Sixteen years worth of earwax was removed from a man in the UK who had not cleaned his ears in over a decade and a half

There is no evidence that blood pressure medication increases the risk of developing cancer, through the largest, most detailed analysis on the matter yet, researchers say.

The nation’s top infectious disease expert is standing by his timeline for a possible coronavirus vaccine, reiterating this week that he expects a safe and effective vaccine to be available by early 2021. 

A Texas scientist predicts a second wave of coronavirus will occur in the spring and not the winter months.

A new survey revealed that nearly half of its respondents did not seek mental health treatment amid the coronavirus pandemic due to cost or lack of access. 

Public health officials increasingly argue that it is better to get fast and frequent COVID-19 test results that are reasonably accurate than more delayed, precise conclusions. 

Face masks may limit the severity of coronavirus cases, University of California San Francisco researchers said in a paper published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

A new study from Chinese researchers suggests that traces of COVID-19 on salmon were detected and could be infectious for more than a week. 

Researchers at the University of Florida are studying a trio of antiviral drugs as a potential treatment against COVID-19. 

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca will put an experimental coronavirus vaccine study on hold in America after a participant in the United Kingdom faced a suspected serious adverse reaction, according to a report.

A coronavirus vaccine will likely be available before the holidays arrive, New York Medical College Professor Dr. Bob Lahita told “Bill Hemmer Reports" Tuesday.

“Acetaminophen seems to make people feel less negative emotion when they consider risky activities" Ohio State University Researchers said in a news release