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FILE - A visitor sits on a bench to look artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's "In America: Remember," a temporary art installation made up of white flags to commemorate Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington on Oct. 2, 2021. The number of U.S. deaths has dropped in 2022 after soaring for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still is much higher than the levels before the coronavirus hit.

U.S. deaths fell this year, but not to pre-COVID levels

FILE - A visitor sits on a bench to look artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's "In America: Remember," a temporary art installation made up of white flags to commemorate Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington on Oct. 2, 2021. The number of U.S. deaths has dropped in 2022 after soaring for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still is much higher than the levels before the coronavirus hit.

December 14, 2022, 5:02pm Health

The number of U.S. deaths dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before the coronavirus hit. Read story

Washington hospitals start cutting services as huge financial losses continue

December 14, 2022, 10:12am Health

Washington hospital leaders are pleading for help from the state as they’ve been hit with massive financial losses for the third quarter in a row — a deficit they blame on rising costs of labor and supplies, and lengthy patient stays. Read story

FILE - A sign marks an entrance to a Moderna building in Cambridge, Mass., on Monday, May 18, 2020. Shares of Merck and Moderna jumped early Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, after the drugmakers said a potential skin cancer vaccine they are developing using the same technology behind COVID-19 preventive shots did well in a mid-stage study.

Merck, Moderna detail potential skin cancer vaccine progress

FILE - A sign marks an entrance to a Moderna building in Cambridge, Mass., on Monday, May 18, 2020. Shares of Merck and Moderna jumped early Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, after the drugmakers said a potential skin cancer vaccine they are developing using the same technology behind COVID-19 preventive shots did well in a mid-stage study.

December 13, 2022, 10:00am Health

Moderna’s stock soared Tuesday after the COVID-19 vaccine maker detailed progress in developing a preventive shot for a deadly form of skin cancer. Read story

Suicide doesn’t rise during the holidays

December 13, 2022, 6:04am Health

Do suicide deaths really spike during the winter holidays, as is so often claimed in the media? Read story

Amy Bianchi of Albany, N.Y., with her newborn son, Brayden, with his father, Christopher, and sister, Mia, at Bellevue Woman's Center in Niskayuna, N.Y., in 2018.

Breast cancer treatment vs. pregnancy

Amy Bianchi of Albany, N.Y., with her newborn son, Brayden, with his father, Christopher, and sister, Mia, at Bellevue Woman's Center in Niskayuna, N.Y., in 2018.

December 13, 2022, 6:02am Health

Young women diagnosed with breast cancer often must delay pregnancy for years while they take hormone-blocking pills. Read story

CVS, Walgreens finalize $10B in settlements over opioids

December 12, 2022, 4:21pm Health

CVS and Walgreens have agreed to pay state and local governments a combined total of more than $10 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of opioids and now want to know by Dec. 31 whether states are accepting the deals. Read story

FILE - In this April 1, 2021, file photo Gov. Greg Gianforte receives a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from pharmacist Drew Garton at a Walgreen's pharmacy, in Helena, Mont. Medical providers and Montana residents with compromised immune systems are challenging the only law in the U.S. that prevents state employers from mandating workers get vaccinated amid a surge of COVID-19 infections. They argue the new law violates federal requirements for safe workplaces and reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and want a federal judge to rule that it doesn't apply to hospitals and other medical providers.

Judge rejects vaccine choice law in health care settings

FILE - In this April 1, 2021, file photo Gov. Greg Gianforte receives a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from pharmacist Drew Garton at a Walgreen's pharmacy, in Helena, Mont. Medical providers and Montana residents with compromised immune systems are challenging the only law in the U.S. that prevents state employers from mandating workers get vaccinated amid a surge of COVID-19 infections. They argue the new law violates federal requirements for safe workplaces and reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and want a federal judge to rule that it doesn't apply to hospitals and other medical providers.

December 12, 2022, 9:55am Health

A person’s choice to decline vaccinations does not outweigh public health and safety requirements in medical settings, a federal judge ruled in a Montana case. Read story

A woman wearing a face mask and covered with hood runs across a street Beijing, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, as the capital city is hit by sandstorm. China will drop a travel tracing requirement as part of an uncertain exit from its strict "zero-COVID" policies that have elicited widespread dissatisfaction.

China vows to drop some travel tracking in COVID rule easing

A woman wearing a face mask and covered with hood runs across a street Beijing, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, as the capital city is hit by sandstorm. China will drop a travel tracing requirement as part of an uncertain exit from its strict "zero-COVID" policies that have elicited widespread dissatisfaction.

December 12, 2022, 9:47am Health Wire

China said it would stop tracking some travel, potentially reducing the likelihood people will be forced into quarantine for visiting COVID-19 hot spots, as part of an uncertain exit from the strict pandemic policies that helped fuel widespread protests. Read story

More states offer health coverage to immigrant children

December 12, 2022, 6:00am Health

A small but growing number of states are extending government health benefits to children regardless of their immigration status. Read story

Her apartment might have put her son’s health at risk. But ‘I have nowhere else to go’

December 11, 2022, 6:12am Health

When Louana Joseph’s son had a seizure because of an upper respiratory infection in July, she abandoned the apartment her family had called home for nearly three years. Read story