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Coronavirus: Restaurants May Lose Nearly $1B, State Faces Obstacles To Reach Testing Goal

The Indiana State Department of Health reported 31 additional deaths Wednesday, bringing the state’s total to 661. The state announced more than 12,000…

Doctors are urging parents to keep all their child's vaccinations up to date — now, more than ever.

Don't Skip Your Child's Well Check: Delays In Vaccines Could Add Up To Big Problems

Telemedicine has its limits. And postponing shots could lead to a resurgence of diseases like measles. Doctors are taking steps to make their offices safe for kids who need to come in.

Coronavirus: State Clarifies Reopening For Bars, Lower Demand For Energy Due To Virus

The Indiana State Department of Health reported 31 additional confirmed deaths on Thursday, bringing the state’s total to 1,295. The state announced more…

Trump To Name His Pick For Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court Seat

President Trump and Senate Republicans appear determined to get a new Supreme Court justice confirmed before the November election. Democrats are vowing to stop that from happening.

A sign (left) outside a Mongolian-language school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, reads: "When the people have conviction, the state has strength and the ethnic minorities have hope." The sign at right says: "Rule of law."

Parents Keep Children Home As China Limits Mongolian Language In The Classroom

As it has long done with the Tibetan and Uighur languages, Beijing is reducing instruction in Mongolian in favor of Mandarin Chinese in ethnic Mongolian areas of the country.

A seaside scene in Indonesia. As countries like Indonesia move up the income ladder, some health conditions improve — but new threats, like non-communicable diseases, loom large.

How To Reduce Human Suffering: 3 Lessons From A Seminal Public Health Study

The authors of the "Global Burden of Disease" report track the toll from every conceivable cause of death or disability. This year they also share intriguing solutions that give cause for optimism.

Police officers stand guard in Philadelphia following protests over the police shooting death of Walter Wallace on Tuesday.

Fatal Police Shooting In Philadelphia Sparks A 2nd Night Of Protests

Police shot and killed Walter Wallace, a 27-year-old Black man, in a confrontation Monday. National Guard troops will be deployed, at the county's request, amid protests following the shooting.

Filmmaker Ken Burns says America is "defined as much by our challenges and the dark moments as we are by our successes." You can explore U.S. history <a href="https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unum">in scenes selected from more than 40 documentaries at Burns' UNUM site.</a> Above, the sun rises behind the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Ken Burns Says U.S. Has 3 Viruses: COVID-19, White Supremacy And Misinformation

Documentarian Ken Burns believed there were three major crises in the nation's past: The Civil War, the Depression and World War II. Now, he says, we are living through the fourth.

Coronavirus: Indiana Starts 2021 With COVID-19 Improvements, But Vaccine Rollout Slows

The Indiana Department of Health reported 404 additional confirmed deaths over the last week. That brings the state’s total to 9,340 confirmed deaths. The…

Pharmacists prepare doses of a COVID-19 vaccine last week at the Life Care Center of Kirkland in Kirkland, Wash. The nursing home was an early epicenter for coronavirus outbreaks in the United States.

COVID-19 Vaccine May Not Get To Long-Term Care Facilities Quickly Enough

COVID-19 vaccines are reaching more long-term facilities, but many worry they won't come soon enough to stave off more deaths.

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