Health

“Danger!” Host Alex Trebek has chosen his unlikely successor: Betty White. Last year, the 79-year-old game show host made the grim announcement that he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Although he has not voiced any official retirement plans in the midst of his health battle, he joked that …

As health experts urge the public to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus, they continue to be rejected. Among the skeptics’ arguments: if the masks can’t fully protect me against COVID-19, what’s the point of using them? The argument against scientists is that masks can help reduce …

A Florida mother lost her 20-year-old son to COVID-19, and then 11 days later, her 22-year-old daughter also died of the disease. “I put up with it pretty well during the day, but at night it really hits me,” Monete Hicks of Lauderdale Lakes told NBC Miami. “I’m so used …

Samples scraped from the back of patients’ noses and throats can now be pooled and analyzed for clumps of the coronavirus at one of the country’s largest commercial laboratories. Quest Diagnostics, which handles tens of thousands of coronavirus tests each day, was cleared for the method, called the combined test, …

Chinese officials are hailing a visit by a team of experts sent to Beijing by the World Health Organization to investigate the source of the coronavirus as evidence that the country is a responsible and transparent global power. But the WHO investigation is likely to take many months and could …