Health

PARIS — Public health officials worldwide have encouraged people to wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19. But in France, a controversy is growing over whether that practice should apply to women giving birth […]

Fall, synonymous with that new notebook smell, isn’t what it was 12 months ago. New backpacks, new classrooms, new bus routes? Last year’s news. The Covid-19 pandemic had other plans for American children, who live […]

The Spanish Canary Islands is the first place in Europe to ban smoking in public in effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus. The ban, which took effect on Oct. 8, aims to reduce […]

Drug therapies, vaccine testing and experimental treatments to fight the Covid-19 pandemic have spread globally. In Pakistan, convalescent plasma therapy has been actively hyped. Public appeals from health experts around the world and internet initiatives […]

When the late Geraldine Ferraro took her place on a vice-presidential debate stage in 1984, the United States was only a few years removed from normalizing relations with the People’s Republic of China. Nine presidential […]

A company that operates the East Mississippi Correctional Facility said Monday that an inmate from that prison has died in a Jackson hospital. Otis C. Taylor, 51, was being treated for an undisclosed illness at […]

A lighthouse on the Mississippi Gulf Coast has reopened to the public, after being shuttered six months because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tours of the Round Island Lighthouse in Pascagoula are available every Friday and […]

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer The nearly 1 million people around the world who have lost their lives to COVID-19 have left us a gift: Through desperate efforts to save their lives, scientists […]

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Mississippi law does not allow absentee voting by all people who have health conditions that might make them vulnerable to COVID-19, the state Supreme […]