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The outgoing head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said her reasons for stepping down were complicated, driven in part by a desire to take a break from the frenetic pace of the job during a pandemic

An anti-aging researcher says structuring exercise into half-cardio and half-strength training could impact longevity.

The White House has selected a former North Carolina health official to be the new director of the nation’s top federal public health agency

LOS ANGELES — Teenagers filled the sidewalk outside a South Los Angeles party last week when gunfire rang out. After the crowd scattered, friends found a Crenshaw High School basketball player dead — the latest example of violence that is disproportionately killing young Black Angelenos, a Times analysis shows.

With an eye toward enhancing protection against the coronavirus, which is still evolving and circulating, federal health advisers said Thursday that the next round of COVID-19 vaccines should be updated to target the now-dominant XBB strains.

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Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were present in the blood of 96.4% of Americans over the age of 16 by September 2022. That’s according to a serosurvey – an analysis testing for the presence of these immune defense molecules – conducted on samples from blood donors.

The mental and physical health consequences of loneliness are grave.

The homicide rate for older U.S. teenagers rose to its highest point in nearly 25 years during the COVID-19 pandemic