Learn To Skate This Summer

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/15 5:42P Roxanne Fequiere

After a year spent largely indoors, adults are regaining a sense of balance on roller skates, bikes and skateboards.

Mint Drink Recipes

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/15 5:21P Florence Fabricant

Mint is a wonderful flavor to enrich warm-weather coolers.

Eula Hall, One-Woman Relief Agency in Appalachia, Dies at 93

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/15 6:49A Katharine Q. Seelye

Calling herself a “hillbilly activist,” she started a health care clinic and offered other services in chronically underserved eastern Kentucky.

How Sickle Cell Trait in Black People Can Give the Police Cover

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/14 11:00P Michael LaForgia and Jennifer Va

Sickle cell trait has been cited in dozens of police custody deaths ruled accidental or natural, even though the condition is benign on its own, a Times investigation found.

Una revolución psicodélica llega a la psiquiatría

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/14 11:00P Andrew Jacobs

La psilocibina y el MDMA están a punto de convertirse en las nuevas terapias de moda, algo que no se veía desde el Prozac. Las universidades quieren participar, al igual que Wall Street. Algunas personas están preocupadas por la posibilidad de que...

723 Epidemiologists on When and How the U.S. Can Fully Return to Normal

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/14 11:00P Claire Cain Miller, Kevin Quealy

Government mandates are lifting, but these experts say the pandemic won’t really end nationally until more people, including children, are vaccinated.

Why the C.D.C. Changed Its Advice on Masks

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/14 12:30P Apoorva Mandavilli

Two scientific findings altered the calculus: Vaccinated people don’t transmit the virus, and the shots are effective against variants.

Pfizer and Moderna Shots Are Powerfully Effective against Virus, Analysis Says

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/14 11:01A Emily Anthes

A new study of 1,800 health care workers confirms that the vaccines are working well in the real world, outside clinical trials.

How the United States Beat the Variants, for Now

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/14 9:01A Carl Zimmer and Apoorva Mandavil

The country has managed to avoid a variant-fueled spike in coronavirus cases. Scientists say we were lucky.

Businesses Offer Perks to Vaccinated Customers

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/13 11:28P Jennifer Steinhauer

Tossing their masks, jumping on side-by-side treadmills, sharing peanuts next to fellow sports fans, the vaccinated find special freedoms await.

Vaccinated Americans May Go Without Masks in Most Places, Federal Officials Say

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/13 1:53P Roni Caryn Rabin, Apoorva Mandav

Fully vaccinated people do not have to wear masks or maintain social distance indoors or outdoors, with some exceptions, the C.D.C. advised.

Hundreds of Epidemiologists Expected Mask-Wearing in Public for at Least a Year

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/13 12:53P Claire Cain Miller, Kevin Quealy

The C.D.C. said Thursday that vaccinated Americans no longer needed masks in most places. Other disease experts recently had a different message: that masks were necessary in public.

More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry Into Coronavirus Origins

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/13 8:33A James Gorman and Carl Zimmer

Researchers urge an open mind, saying lack of evidence leaves theories of natural spillover and laboratory leak both viable.

Covid Pandemic Demands Air Quality Changes in the Workplace, Researchers Say

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/13 8:31A Apoorva Mandavilli

The researchers issued a call to action to improve indoor air quality as a safeguard against the spread of contagions like the coronavirus.

Vaccinated Americans Now May Go Without Masks in Most Places, the C.D.C. said

NYTimes.com (Health) 5/13 8:17A Roni Caryn Rabin and Apoorva Man

Fully vaccinated people only need to wear masks in health care settings, on mass transit and in transportation hubs, and in prisons and homeless shelters.