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Shortly after Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II passed away last Friday, the BBC cut its schedule to cover its television channels and radio stations all afternoon and night.When popular shows went off…

The body of a deceased patient is considered a health care worker treating individuals infected with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on December 30, 2020 at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, United States.Callaghan O'Hare…

WASHINGTON - Stuart Force says he found solace on Facebook after his son was stabbed to death by a member of the Hamas militant group in Israel in 2016. He turned to the website to read hundreds of condolences on his son's page.But just a…

Over the past year, many scientific teams around the world have reported that obese people who contract the coronavirus are particularly likely to get dangerously ill.A major new study of nearly 150,000 adults in more than 200 hospitals…

The body of a deceased patient is considered a health care worker treating individuals infected with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on December 30, 2020 at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, United States.Callaghan O'Hare…

Kaye Steinsapir was strapped into the front seat of an ambulance when her daughter was injured in the back. She took out her cell phone and started typing."Please. Please. Please," she partially wrote. "Everyone is praying for my daughter…

Governor Andrew Cuomo holds a daily press conference at the base of the Mario Cuomo Bridge in Tarrytown, New York on June 15, 2020.Lev Radin | Pacific Press | LightRocket via Getty ImagesWhat a difference a few months have made for New…

Vials and a medical syringe are displayed in front of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) US logo. The FDA finds the COVID-19 vaccine.Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty ImagesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will…

A pharmacist shows a box of tocilizumab, which is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, in the pharmacy of Cambrai Hospital in France on April 28, 2020.Pascal Rossignol | ReutersA drug used to treat people with rheumatoid arthritis appears…

Paramedics work in an ambulance parked outside the Royal London Hospital in east London on January 21, 2021.DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS | AFP | Getty ImagesLONDON - The official UK death toll from the coronavirus pandemic hit 100,000 on Tuesday.…