Health Care

Delta Airlines announced Tuesday a partnership with CVS Health to speed up employee COVID-19 testing that the company said would “build confidence about traveling” for its customers.

Proponents say that rapid, at-home COVID-19 testing would allow for real-time detection of new clusters of cases, including asymptomatic individuals -- before they can spread.

Three U.S. companies are currently in Phase 3 clinical trials of vaccines and are on pace to develop one before the end of the year. The country expects 500 million doses to be available before Dec. 31, Trump said during a news conference.

Here are three Medicare mistakes to avoid at all costs during the ongoing crisis.

Romney said that "we need to take action now" or risk significant cuts to Medicare and Social Security benefits.

As tens of millions of students across the country return to schools this month for the first time since March, teachers and principals are scrambling to jury-rig their classrooms, hallways and schedules to keep students physically distanced inside of buildings created to bring them together.

New coronavirus cases in the U.S. topped 50,000 for the second day in a row, as countries around the world struggled to curb the virus’s spread.

All of the cleaners were recalled by the manufacturer or distributor after testing positive for methanol.

The deal is valued at up to $1.5 billion.

Kodak executives face allegations of wrongdoing related to a government loan to produce pharmaceutical supplies.

The FDA is on the verge of approving a saliva-based coronavirus test created by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group is the latest to sue Zoom Video Communications over allegedly false privacy protection claims, saying the company misled and deceived users, such as those in the health care industry, who expected that the technology's encryption would protect their personal information, according to a lawsuit announced Tuesday. 

Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there.

Russia on Tuesday became the first country to clear a coronavirus vaccine and declare it ready for use, despite international skepticism. President Vladimir Putin said that one of his daughters has already been inoculated.

Gilead Sciences Inc said on Monday it has filed a marketing application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its experimental COVID-19 drug remdesivir.

The recall, issued by Thomson on Aug. 1, includes red, yellow, white and sweet yellow onions which were shipped beginning May 1 in cartons weighing between five and 50 pounds, and mesh sacks between two and 50 pounds.

Amid the dual public health crises of COVID-19 and racism, some in the medical community are prescribing a somewhat nontraditional remedy: voting. Hospitals, doctors and healthcare institutions across the country are committing to efforts to engage Americans in the election process as part of Civic Health Month.

The president recently took action to lower the cost of prescription drugs.

An Indian yoga televangelist, who is an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claims to have already found the cure for the new coronavirus -- and it's for sale. 

Gilead Sciences said on Thursday that the drug company has gone into hyperdrive creating the antiviral drug remdesivir, the first treatment shown to be effective against COVID-19.