Offering health benefits can help elite restaurants hire and keep ace employees. But owners would rather focus on great food, they say, than drown in administrative costs. Is single-payer the answer?
Every year, viruses like influenza kill hundreds of thousands worldwide — yet countries don't respond with lockdowns or airport screenings. Here's why they're doing so over the coronavirus outbreak.
Experts in infectious disease say viruses like the novel coronavirus don't survive long on surfaces. And there's no evidence from similar outbreaks that anyone got infected by handling a package.
China has completed building a 1,000-bed hospital for treating victims of a new virus that has caused 362 deaths and more than 17,000 infections at home and abroad, according to the latest figures Monday.
A new program at the University of North Dakota will teach students to examine health care from the perspective of indigenous cultures around the world.
The Super Bowl is a big day for guacamole, which could also mean more ER visits. A recent study links increased avocado consumption to an increase in hand injuries.
It can spread person to person, even if someone is showing no symptoms. The incubation period is so long that people may not know where or when they picked it up. Details that emerged last week about the new virus from China show how challenging it could be to control this outbreak, health experts say.
State health officials in Massachusetts confirmed the latest case of the fast-spreading respiratory virus in a Boston man returning from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak.
China’s death toll from a new virus rose to 259 on Saturday and a World Health Organization official said other governments need to prepare for “domestic outbreak control” if the disease spreads in their countries.