Health

A cheery North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, had food in mind while inspecting a new chicken farm, as hungry citizens were advised to eat small turtles to quench their hunger, according to reports on Thursday. During his visit to the farm being built south of Pyongyang, Kim called for …

Hundreds of already successful COVID-19 tests were not reported in Santa Cruz County until Thursday, health officials there said, due to continuing technical problems with the state’s online database. Two-thirds of the 848 publicly reported cases in the county have come in the past two weeks, Dr. Gail Newell, the …

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have found that about 47% of American adults have an underlying condition strongly linked to severe COVID-19 disease. The model-based study, released today at the CDC Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report, used self-reported data from the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor …

Her mother said in an interview that she was now caring for her grandchildren but that she had to quit her job as a housekeeper to do so. That has left the family with only the income of Anadelia’s husband, Richard Díaz, a delivery driver. “Our world fell apart,” said …

President Donald Trump has boasted in several recent television appearances about his performance on a screening test aimed at evaluating mild cognitive impairment or early dementia. It’s unclear if Trump, 74, took the test again, but in 2018 he received the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) with Dr. Ronny Jackson, the …