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Baylor Expert: Don't Lose Focus on Spiritual and Mental Well-being
Baylor Social Work professor shares tips and resources during stressful half-way mark of semester Holly Oxhandler, Ph.D., LMSW., associate dean for research and faculty ...
Florida measles outbreak highlights the cost of vaccine hesitancy
A measles outbreak that started in a Florida elementary school has spread and is now up to ten cases. University of Delaware epidemiologist Jennifer Horney ...
Ruling blocking Obamacare's preventative care mandate will 'severely set back' fight against cancer, HIV
Preventative care may be more difficult to obtain after a federal judge blocked an Obamacare mandate that required insurance companies to offer services such as ...
Epidemiologist breaks down newest COVID-19 variant, the most contagious to date
The newest strain of the novel coronavirus may be the most transmissible yet. The latest variant, named XBB.1.5, is an offshoot of the BA.1 variant ...
Bivalent Boosters are Here: Our Expert Explains What You Need to Know
Updated COVID-10 booster shots are rolling out across the United States, and these new bivalent formulations target the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants that have ...
Expert Insight: President Biden’s COVID-19 ‘Rebound Positive’
UConn Health’s Dr. David Banach explains how a fully vaccinated and boosted person could test positive, negative, and positive again for COVID-19 within a 10...
Free masks are coming - here's what you need to know
As stores across America prepare to receive "the largest deployment of personal protective equipment in U.S. history," UConn epidemiologist Dr. David Banach is answering ...
Ask an Epidemiologist: How to Safely Celebrate the Holiday Season
Now that COVID-19 vaccines are widely available and mask mandates and restrictions on gatherings are no longer in place in many areas, is this the ...
Experts in the Media – UConn’s Dr. David Banach is the go-to voice on COVID boosters
As COVID continues to wreak havoc across the globe, health systems in America are overwhelmed. And as the debate about a third shot continues, the ...
Did the Johnson & Johnson pause impact COVID-19 vaccine hesitation in Black and Hispanic communities?
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently lifted the pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The agencies ...