Health

Health systems in many places struggle in winter. Conditions like asthma, heart attacks, and strokes tend to worsen in colder temperatures, and some infectious diseases like influenza spread more easily, which means facilities are facing a higher patient burden. This year, the coronavirus pandemic could create the perfect winter storm, …

Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, asked the president on Wednesday to resign and said her uncle was dangerous to the United States. Trump, whose bomb book on the family was published Tuesday and followed in The Guardian and other media last week, told ABC that the United States is “on …

The Tompkins County Health Department says there are ten new positive cases of COVID-19 in Tompkins County in a single day of results. That’s on top of nine known active cases as of Monday night, though two of them are now listed as recovered. “Of the ten new positive cases, …

Credit: CC0 Public domain An interdisciplinary team of scientists studying thousands of oyster shells along the Georgia coast, some up to 4,500 years old, have published new ideas on how Native Americans maintained oyster harvests for thousands of years, observations that can lead to best oyster reef management practices today. …

People in colorful dresses sell and buy products at a street market in Osogbo, Nigeria at dusk. Jorge Fernández | LightRocket via Getty Images Decreasing fertility rates will likely mean that almost all countries have reduced populations by the end of the century, according to a new study, triggering “major …