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FILE - Maya Goode, a COVID-19 technician, performs a test on Jessica Sanchez outside Asthenis Pharmacy in Providence, R.I., Dec. 7, 2021. Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19?s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically.

Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in U.S. and Britain

FILE - Maya Goode, a COVID-19 technician, performs a test on Jessica Sanchez outside Asthenis Pharmacy in Providence, R.I., Dec. 7, 2021. Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19?s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically.

January 11, 2022, 1:07pm Health

Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. Read story

Suit highlights suburban unease with addiction centers

January 11, 2022, 9:15am Health

A Chicago-based addiction treatment center, which like others nationwide has faced fierce opposition to opening suburban branches, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to force one suburb to stop blocking its expansion plans. Read story

Bekah Bischoff plays Pictionary Man with her children, Henry and Ady, on Feb. 8, 2018 in Louisville, Ky. Bischoff, who developed preeclampsia during two pregnancies and now helps other moms who've had the condition, said she was diagnosed late in the third trimester both times. While pregnant with Henry in 2012, she found out she had a very severe type called HELLP Syndrome at 36 weeks. He was delivered that day. She nearly died.

Blood test may one day predict preeclampsia in pregnancy

Bekah Bischoff plays Pictionary Man with her children, Henry and Ady, on Feb. 8, 2018 in Louisville, Ky. Bischoff, who developed preeclampsia during two pregnancies and now helps other moms who've had the condition, said she was diagnosed late in the third trimester both times. While pregnant with Henry in 2012, she found out she had a very severe type called HELLP Syndrome at 36 weeks. He was delivered that day. She nearly died.

January 11, 2022, 6:02am Health

A blood test may one day be able to predict whether someone who is pregnant will develop a serious blood pressure disorder months before symptoms show up. Read story

Boys huddle after playing soccer in 2019 during a weeklong camp in Pennsylvania for children grieving the loss of a parent, sibling or caregiver. During the pandemic, more than 167,000 children have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19.

Kids who lost parents to COVID deserve help, advocates say

Boys huddle after playing soccer in 2019 during a weeklong camp in Pennsylvania for children grieving the loss of a parent, sibling or caregiver. During the pandemic, more than 167,000 children have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19.

January 11, 2022, 6:02am Health

Hundreds of thousands of kids have lost a parent or primary caregiver to COVID-19 and need support services, mental health experts say, with communities of color particularly devastated. Read story

Dr. Douglas Vaughan is seen in his lab, Jan. 3, 2022, at Northwestern???s Simpson Querry Biomedical Research Center. The new Potocsnak Longevity Institute focuses on how to help people live longer, healthier lives through research and treating patients.

Institute dedicated to study of aging

Dr. Douglas Vaughan is seen in his lab, Jan. 3, 2022, at Northwestern???s Simpson Querry Biomedical Research Center. The new Potocsnak Longevity Institute focuses on how to help people live longer, healthier lives through research and treating patients.

January 11, 2022, 6:00am Health

Some people look and act younger than they are. Others seem to age prematurely, acquiring wrinkles, gray hair and an assortment of health problems earlier than their peers. Read story

A pharmacy in Grand Central Terminal advertises the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 in New York City.

Omicron symptoms differ in vaxxed, unvaxxed

A pharmacy in Grand Central Terminal advertises the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 in New York City.

January 11, 2022, 6:00am Health

The highly contagious omicron variant now accounts for most new cases in the United States. And with a surge in COVID-19 cases and intense demand for scarce at-home rapid tests — which don’t differentiate between variants — Americans experiencing COVID-like symptoms are scrambling to figure out whether they’ve contracted omicron,… Read story

FILE - Youngstown City Health Department worker Faith Terreri grabs two at-home COVID-19 test kits to be handed out during a distribution event, Dec. 30, 2021, in Youngstown, Ohio. Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for those on their plans, the Biden administration announced Monday, as it looks to lower costs and make testing for the virus more convenient amid rising frustrations.

Home COVID tests to be covered by insurers starting Saturday

FILE - Youngstown City Health Department worker Faith Terreri grabs two at-home COVID-19 test kits to be handed out during a distribution event, Dec. 30, 2021, in Youngstown, Ohio. Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for those on their plans, the Biden administration announced Monday, as it looks to lower costs and make testing for the virus more convenient amid rising frustrations.

January 10, 2022, 4:37pm Health

Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. The Biden administration announced the change Monday as it looks to lower costs and make testing for the virus more convenient amid rising frustrations. Read story

In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, members of the surgical team show the pig heart for transplant into patient David Bennett in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. On Monday, Jan. 10, 2022 the hospital said that he's doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery.

In 1st, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, members of the surgical team show the pig heart for transplant into patient David Bennett in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. On Monday, Jan. 10, 2022 the hospital said that he's doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery.

January 10, 2022, 1:59pm Health

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. Read story

FILE - In this May 8, 2020, file photo, medical personal work on a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center, which is part of Seattle-area health care system UW Medicine in Seattle.

More than plots on a chart: The 10,000 lost to COVID in Washington

FILE - In this May 8, 2020, file photo, medical personal work on a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center, which is part of Seattle-area health care system UW Medicine in Seattle.

January 10, 2022, 7:48am Health Free

10,000 lives. Read story

‘Deaths of despair’ spiked in Washington in 2020, exceeding deaths from COVID

January 10, 2022, 7:39am Health

They’ve come to be known as “deaths of despair” — fatalities from drug overdoses, alcohol use, and suicide. Research has shown they’ve been on the rise for decades in the United States, and have contributed to the decline in life expectancy over the last few years. Read story