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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the August Jobs Report at the White House in Washington, September 3, 2021.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersThe Biden administration laid out Friday a $65 billion plan U.S. officials say will help the…

“I am very concerned that if we don’t commit the resources now, it will only get harder, and less likely, in the years ahead,” Mr. Daschle wrote in an email. “Now is the time to apply lessons learned.”Updated Aug. 24, 2021, 4:52 p.m. ETSome…

DRESDEN, Germany - In a showcase of the German Hygiene Museum, there is a pretty blue glass bottle, the grace of which belies its purpose. Made in 1904, it is a bottle for tuberculosis patients that is worn on the hip to allow them to spit…

With renewed attention to the origins of the coronavirus, experts and officials on Sunday called on China to create more transparency and investigate more quickly whether the devastating pandemic began with a leak from a laboratory."There…

Other carers have had problems accessing health care, either for themselves or for their loved ones. Ora Larson, 82, due for back surgery in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the spring of 2020, looked forward to relieving the debilitating pain of…

And now the United States is facing a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened and killed many Americans of color who are over-represented in the essential workforce and yet less likely to have access to medical care. As the federal…

BRUSSELS - Citing what they call "the greatest challenge facing the global community since the 1940s," the leaders of more than two dozen countries, the European Union and the World Health Organization signed an international treaty on…

A small group of scientists and others who believe the novel coronavirus that started the pandemic could be due to a laboratory leak or accident are calling for an investigation, independent of the World Health Organization's team of…

In the summer, Dr. Michael Mina signed a contract with a cold storage company. With many of its restaurant customers closed, the company had freezers available. And Dr. Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health,…

"Had we set it up in 2019, when this virus hit the US, we would have had instant access to data that would have enabled us to see it floating around, for example, in New York City without doing anything else," said Dr. Said Mina.Updated…