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President Biden has made ''harm reduction'' a central pillar of his plan to fight a record number of drug-related deaths, but a conservative backlash is threatening the effort. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Byline: Sheryl Gay Stolberg President Biden came into office vowing to respect science, but openings in crucial jobs could hamper progress on medical and technological research. WASHINGTON - President Biden, [...]

The federal government has ordered 600,000 doses of the monoclonal antibody treatment, which is meant for high-risk Covid patients early in their illness. With Covid treatments still in short supply [...]

President Biden came into office vowing to respect science, but openings in crucial jobs could hamper progress on medical and technological research. WASHINGTON -- President Biden, who came into office [...]

The Biden administration said federal masking guidance would not change for now, but was seeking advice from public health experts on the way forward. WASHINGTON -- The White House has [...]

Byline: Sheryl Gay Stolberg G.O.P. candidates, tapping into voters' frustrations with a seemingly endless pandemic, are stepping up their attacks on Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. COLUMBUS, Ohio - When Jane [...]

G.O.P. candidates, tapping into voters' frustrations with a seemingly endless pandemic, are stepping up their attacks on Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- When Jane Timken kicked off an [...]

A broad, bipartisan group of senators is coalescing around a plan for an independent panel to investigate the origins of the coronavirus and the U.S. response. WASHINGTON -- A broad [...]

The U.S. surgeon general sought to reassure parents who are nervous about their toddlers and preschoolers being vaccinated against the coronavirus, after federal regulators took a step toward authorizing vaccines [...]

The president aims to revive the cancer ''moonshot'' program, but experts expressed doubt that it would be possible to reduce the death rate so profoundly. WASHINGTON -- President Biden unveiled [...]

WASHINGTON -- Dr. Rochelle Walensky was stunned. Working from her home outside Boston on a Friday night in late July, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [...]

The masks will be distributed at pharmacies and community health centers, but some public health experts said the effort was coming too late. WASHINGTON -- Two years into the coronavirus [...]

Visitors can go to covidtests.gov and click through to a Postal Service web page where they can order four tests per household, free of charge. WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration's [...]

The tests will take up to 12 days to arrive, which may be after the peak of the current surge of cases in some parts of the country. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Byline: Sheryl Gay Stolberg In a striking critique, six prominent health experts who advised President Biden's transition team called for an entirely new domestic coronavirus strategy. WASHINGTON - On the [...]

In a striking critique, six prominent health experts who advised President Biden's transition team called for an entirely new domestic coronavirus strategy. WASHINGTON -- On the day President Biden was [...]

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has stumbled in explaining her policy decisions. WASHINGTON -- Two days before Christmas, with the Omicron variant [...]

WASHINGTON -- As the Biden administration tries to stanch yet another wave of the coronavirus pandemic, senior White House officials have also been considering a proposal to ensure the nation [...]

Contracts to purchase tests could be signed as soon as next week, but relief could be weeks away for people trying to buy the hard-to-find tests. WASHINGTON -- President Biden [...]

The president also sought to address the nation's battered psyche, telling anxious Americans that ''we should all be concerned about Omicron, but not panicked.'' WASHINGTON -- President Biden accelerated his [...]

President Biden came into office vowing to make testing cheap and accessible, but matching supply with demand has been a persistent problem. WASHINGTON -- The nation's coronavirus testing capacity, already [...]

Byline: Sheryl Gay Stolberg A bipartisan group led by two former governors is urging President Biden to help an estimated 167,000 children who have lost parents or caregivers. WASHINGTON - [...]

A bipartisan group led by two former governors is urging President Biden to help an estimated 167,000 children who have lost parents or caregivers. WASHINGTON -- Courtney Grund, whose husband [...]

Bob Dole, a Kansas Republican, brought his no-nonsense manner to Washington, cutting deals during a bygone era. ''He was in a sense Mr. America,'' the historian Robert Dallek said. WASHINGTON [...]

The president's plan shifts away from a near-singular focus on vaccination, as new cases of the variant have emerged in the United States. WASHINGTON -- President Biden, confronting a worrisome [...]

Taken together, the provisions in the social policy bill represent the biggest step toward universal coverage since the passage of the Affordable Care Act. WASHINGTON -- Of all the ''bitter [...]

He fled communist rule in Hungary, discovered a treatment for glaucoma in the U.S., then became an author and a voice against authoritarianism in his homeland. Laszlo Bito, a research [...]

The Biden administration will spend billions of dollars on a new plan to combat the pandemic, investing in antiviral pills, rapid tests and manufacturing. WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration, under [...]

Dr. Robert M. Califf, an academic and clinical trial researcher who ran the agency in 2016, has also consulted for pharmaceutical companies. WASHINGTON -- President Biden announced on Friday that [...]

Byline: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Rebecca Robbins Moderna's patent application names several employees as the sole inventors of a crucial component of its coronavirus vaccine, excluding three government scientists. WASHINGTON [...]

The dispute has potential implications for the vaccine's long-term availability and billions in future profits. The National Institutes of Health is prepared to aggressively defend its assertion that its scientists [...]

Moderna's patent application names several employees as the sole inventors of a crucial component of its coronavirus vaccine, excluding three government scientists. WASHINGTON -- Moderna and the National Institutes of [...]

The first lady and the surgeon general visited an elementary school in Virginia as part of a strategy to enlist schools in promoting the vaccine. McLEAN, Va. -- Franklin Sherman [...]

The $1.85 trillion social policy bill would provide free private health insurance for more than two million adults locked out of coverage, but only for four years. ALBANY, Ga. -- [...]

After a legal setback for abortion rights, three Democratic representatives and one Republican shared their personal stories with a House panel. WASHINGTON -- Representative Cori Bush, a Democrat from Missouri, [...]

But his plans face a tough road as pressure grows for big pharmaceutical companies to share their vaccine technologies with poorer nations. WASHINGTON -- President Biden, declaring the coronavirus an [...]

WASHINGTON -- It was not quite noon on a sunny Saturday in Washington, and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the renowned infectious disease specialist and top medical adviser to President Biden, [...]

Moderna accepted $2.5 billion in taxpayer money to develop its Covid-19 vaccine. But officials in the U.S. and overseas are having trouble persuading the company to license its technology. Pressure [...]

Byline: Lara Jakes and Sheryl Gay Stolberg The U.N.-backed vaccine program is so far behind schedule that not even 10 percent of the population in poor countries is fully vaccinated, [...]

Under pressure to cut the bill's cost, Democrats disagree over whether to offer more benefits to older Americans or to cover more of the working poor. WASHINGTON -- Democrats are [...]

The U.N.-backed vaccine program is so far behind schedule that not even 10 percent of the population in poor countries is fully vaccinated, experts say. WASHINGTON -- Already grappling with [...]

Resistance to vaccine mandates, once a fringe position, has entered the Republican mainstream. But the governors fighting President Biden's Covid-19 requirements impose mandates of their own. WASHINGTON -- Like other [...]

Initially reluctant to enact mandates, the president is now moving aggressively to require vaccination as the Delta variant races across the country. WASHINGTON -- President Biden on Thursday used the [...]

The plan calls for an initial investment of at least $15 billion -- half of what President Biden initially proposed. WASHINGTON -- The White House, stepping into delicate negotiations on [...]

Congress appropriated $16 billion to ramp up Covid-19 countermeasures, but a new report found that the Biden administration had spent very little of it on expanding vaccine manufacturing capacity. WASHINGTON [...]

Byline: Sheryl Gay Stolberg Districts are heeding President Biden's call to host pop-up vaccination clinics. But promoting vaccines is politically difficult, and persuading parents isn't easy. CHEYENNE, Wyo. - There [...]

Districts are heeding President Biden's call to host pop-up vaccination clinics. But promoting vaccines is politically difficult, and persuading parents isn't easy. CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- There were no cheery signs [...]

The new strategies -- including encouraging booster shots for most vaccinated Americans -- reflect concerns that the Delta variant is erasing progress against the pandemic. WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration [...]

With vaccination rates lagging among young people, the administration wants to incorporate vaccination into school sports physicals and is asking schools to host vaccine clinics. WASHINGTON -- The White House, [...]

An evolving virus and 18 months of ever-changing pandemic messaging have left Americans angry, exhausted and skeptical of public health advice. WASHINGTON -- A week of public health reversals from [...]