A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

Three out of four adults in the United States live with conditions that can increase the risk of severe illness. 9 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, cancer, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, obesity, heart conditions and chronic liver disease are among the conditions flagged by the CDC. 8

While the threat is not as urgent as it used to be, there are still people getting infected with COVID-19 across the country, with infections rising during the summer. An occasion like Thanksgiving, when big groups of people spend a long time in confined spaces, represents a chance for the virus to spread.

At the one-year follow-up, the annual change in eGFR was −1.16 mL/min/1.73 m² in the unvaccinated group, −1.03 in the vaccinated group without gross hematuria (GH), and −2.50 in the vaccinated group with GH. Patients who developed GH showed a significantly greater decline in kidney function compared to those without GH.

As HIV rates rise across the country, the AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador says this province is no exception.

“If you think back to the end of January, just before COVID became a thing in the news in the United States, January, February, what was Dr. Fauci doing? He was frantically engaging in a massive cover-up with 3 a.m. emails and phone calls," Makary argued.

A study of the effects of COVID-19 policies highlights the underexplored impacts of commercial cooking on air quality.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A federal judge in Miami set a $60,000 bond Tuesday for U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who made her first appearance in court on charges of conspiring to steal $5 million in federal disaster funds meant to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.