Health

The executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO) emergency program, Mike Ryan, speaks at a press conference on the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Health Organization on Monday applauded data recently released by researchers from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca on …

Clark County Public Health reported Monday three new deaths associated with COVID-19 and 92 new positive tests since Friday. The three deaths were a woman in her 60s with underlying health conditions, and a man in his 70s and a woman in his 80s with undetermined underlying conditions. To date, …

Monete Hicks’ son Byron and daughter Mychaela of Lauderhill had health problems but were well and “basically confined to their home,” he said. They then made a trip to Orlando just before he got sick, Hicks said. Byron, 20, had trouble breathing when he woke up on a Saturday in …

U.S. health officials are cracking down on a brand of fruit-flavored disposable e-cigarettes that is popular with teens, saying the company never received permission to sell them in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration sent a letter Monday telling the company to remove Puff Bar e-cigarettes from the market …

Los Angeles County officials have announced another record day among patients hospitalized for the coronavirus. As of Monday, 2,232 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms, the highest number of a single day reported and the sixth consecutive day that hospitalizations exceeded 2,100. On Sunday, 2,216 patients were reported, the first …