Every time I give a public talk on my book The Lost Art of Dying, an audience member asks how I make sense of COVID-era policies that restrict visitors in hospitals and nursing homes. How can people ...

Healthcare workers hold a tablet in front of a COVID-19 coronavirus patient during a video call with relatives at the ...

Every Valentine’s Day since the first year of the pandemic, we have remembered those our community has lost due to COVID-19.

He was one of the few ICU patients whose face I saw in early 2021, when COVID raged through Los Angeles. As a palliative-care physician, my job was to meet, over Zoom, with the families of intubated ...

Nelson Mandela's granddaughter urges the U.S. to act to help people across the globe fighting COVID-19 and other diseases.

An Alabama doctor is urging COVID-19 doubters to get inoculated by sharing her experience treating dying patients who wish they'd gotten vaccinated. "I'm admitting young healthy people to the hospital ...

The toll of coronavirus in the U.S. and around the world is being told in the numbers of people who have died, been infected, tested or quarantined — and the economic costs of canceled events, ...

In LA neighborhood Pacoima, health workers have seen the impact of the virus. Ever Linares grew up in South Los Angeles, where he tangled with gangs. He later turned his life around, devoting his time ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- A San Antonio family is making plans for a 4-year-old boy who lost both parents to COVID-19. "He was the apple of their eye," said Margie Bryant, the little boy's great-aunt. But ...