Health

Facing new and potentially more contagious, different types of coronavirus, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is implementing lockdown measures, including a ban on holiday gatherings outside locked homes in London and the south-east of England. After months of epidemics by the Johnson administration, and a week of assurances that Christmas …

Riverside, California. (KABC) – A strike organized by nurses at three hospitals in Southern California has been avoided after a new deal with the union was struck, hospital officials announced Saturday. Nurses from Riverside Community Hospital, West Hills Hospital and Medical Center and Los Robles Health System have authorized a …

Dolphins have not returned to cleaner canals in Venice, Italy this year. Nor was the critically endangered Malabar Civet seen on the roads of Kerala, India. And, unlike a memento, there were definitely no dinosaurs in Times Square. Most memes claiming “nature is the cure” when COVID-19’s business around the …

A Missouri mom hopes seeing the blood of her dead son dripping from a hospital room wall will help Americans take COVID-19 seriously. Pitton Bumgarth was only 13-year-old when he died of the virus in October, as his mother – a nurse who was also infected – was watching. The …

Hospitals in California are fighting to find beds for in-house patients amid fears that an outbreak of coronavirus infection could drain resources and health care workers. As of Saturday, about 17,400 people had been hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection – more than double the previous peak reached in …