Health

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3’s EKG feature is coming to 31 new countries

By Jay Peters January 26

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Testing sidelined as health departments focus on vaccination

They don’t have the resources for both

By Nicole Wetsman January 26

Slow certification process keeps some pharmacists from giving COVID-19 vaccines

By Nicole Wetsman January 25

PSA: phones, MagSafe or not, should be kept away from your pacemaker

By Mitchell Clark January 25

A year into coronavirus, we’re still counting the dead

By Mary Beth Griggs January 23

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An EU parliament website for COVID testing allegedly broke the EU’s privacy laws

By Mitchell Clark January 22

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President Biden to use Defense Production Act for masks, vaccines

By Nicole Wetsman January 21

Joe Biden halts US withdrawal from World Health Organization

By Nicole Wetsman January 20

COVID-19 cases in the Capitol are only the tip of the iceberg

By Nicole Wetsman January 19

CES showed off the COVID-19 mask gimmick arms race

By Nicole Wetsman January 16

Zocdoc offers COVID-19 vaccine scheduler to health care organizations

By Nicole Wetsman January 15

Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle are working on digital vaccination records

By Jay Peters January 14

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Period tracking app settles charges it lied to users about privacy

By Zoe Schiffer January 13

US to require negative test from international travelers

By Nicole Wetsman January 12

Older adults struggle to access COVID-19 vaccine appointment websites

By Nicole Wetsman January 12

It’s 2021, and the pandemic is still here

No one wants 2021 to be 2020: The Sequel

By Mary Beth Griggs January 9

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Amazon reportedly developing radar-equipped sleep apnea tracker

By Jon Porter January 6

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FDA tells US health providers not to modify COVID-19 vaccine dose schedule

By Nicole Wetsman January 5

Florida counties use Eventbrite to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments

By Nicole Wetsman January 4

A quirk of COVID-19 tests can track the new coronavirus variant

By Nicole Wetsman December 30, 2020

Go read this New Yorker report on the failed response to COVID-19 in the US

By Nicole Wetsman December 28, 2020

US requires negative coronavirus test from UK travelers

By Nicole Wetsman December 25, 2020

Monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety means sorting signal from noise

By Nicole Wetsman December 23, 2020

The CDC says the top global health story of 2020 was mosquitoes

By Nicole Wetsman December 23, 2020

A semester in solitude

After spending the fall in their bedrooms, students say their mental health has suffered

By Monica Chin December 21, 2020

Frontline essential workers and the elderly next in line for COVID-19 vaccinations in US

By Nicole Wetsman December 20, 2020

Stanford algorithm decided to vaccinate only seven of its frontline COVID-19 workers, out of 5,000 doses

By Jay Peters December 20, 2020

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Apple just temporarily closed all 53 stores in California and over a dozen in London

By Sean Hollister December 19, 2020

A COVID-19 vaccine gets a little bit extra

By Mary Beth Griggs December 19, 2020

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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine second to get FDA sign-off in US

It’ll start to be distributed within days

By Nicole Wetsman December 18, 2020

Google now offers weekly COVID-19 tests to every US employee

By Mitchell Clark December 18, 2020

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Moderna vaccine gets sign-off from independent FDA committee

By Nicole Wetsman December 17, 2020