News from August 17: Doubts about temperature as an early COVID-19 symptom, new spit test could replace swab testing for the virus, and NZ postpones election due to spike in cases.

Do you live in Virginia? If so, yours was the first state to use the joint Google and Apple notification tools to build an app that allows for contact tracing notifications using Bluetooth.

The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts that by 2032 the U.S. will have a shortage of nearly 122,000 physicians.

The earlier children take the HPV vaccine, the stronger the immune response, says the ACS.

Most people in the healthcare industry believe that the majority of Instagrammers are mostly the "Gen Z" and teenagers, many of whom are more interested in the flashy stuffs that Kylie Jenner posts...

The world’s attention is on our health care workers right now, but the role of nurses has been steadily becoming more important in the last few decades. Originally cast in a subservient role to...

Nicotine-free hiring is gaining momentum and this might be bad for poor Americans looking for jobs.

Employment in the U.S. cannabis industry is surging and so are salaries.

Philadelphia is conducting a modest study to find out if fracking causes cancer.

Rising temperatures caused by climate change may be behind the spread of a mysterious kidney disease in disadvantaged communities across the globe.

A recent Senate hearing has exposed how underfunded and dangerous the government-run Indian Health Service really is.

A team of scientists studied what environmental factors contribute to a student's academic performance, and what they found involved more than ideal lighting and temperature.