By Staff |  Posted: Sat 5:07 PM, May 30, 2020  |  Updated: Sat 11:41 PM, May 30, 2020 TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX) A new cluster of COVID-19 cases has been reported at a Temple nursing home, including the county's fourth COVID-19 related death, according to Bell County Public Health District Director, Amanda Robison-Chadwell. On Friday, May 29,…
By Rowan Hooper Chimps use twigs to fish for termitesAnup Shah/Nature Picture Library/Alamy How many ways are there to get a termite to run up a stick? A surprising variety, it turns out. A new analysis of how chimpanzees perform this “termite fishing” has revealed that different groups of animals have distinct dining cultures, similar…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.State and local governments across the country are expecting to lay off workers in the near future, lamenting that a new stimulus bill is not providing them with additional funds.Governors and Washington Democrats had called for federal aid to states…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — More than 2.4 million people worldwide -- including more than 760,000 people in the United States – have been infected with the new coronavirus, and the number of deaths from the outbreak continues to rise. Officials are attempting to contain the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. as hospitals manage unprecedented patient surges.
(Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) As Grace Griffin and her husband were welcoming their long-awaited baby — a daughter — Griffin found herself worried about looming medical bills and unsure if their family could pay for the care they needed. “This whole experience has me wondering (keeping me up at night, actually): Can we ever afford
LYON, France — Halving the dose of antenatal betamethasone given to prevent severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants does not appear to affect later intelligence quotient (IQ) scores or other measures of neurodevelopment, suggests a follow-up study of a randomized trial. However, it is unclear from the present data, presented at the Congress of
After years of searching for affordable health insurance, Trey Wright discovered Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The state’s limited Medicaid expansion program allowed the 27-year-old living in the rural city of Jesup in southeastern Georgia to finally visit a primary care doctor regularly. It also covered weekly shots to manage an array of allergies, saving him