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Pregnant women infected with COVID-19 are about 25% more likely to deliver their babies preterm, according to data released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....Read More

People who have high blood pressure at night are at increased risk for heart disease, even if their blood pressure is within normal ranges during the day, according to a study published Monday by Circulation....Read More

San Francisco’s contact tracing program successfully reached more than 80% of confirmed COVID-19 cases and their close contacts, according to an analysis published Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine....Read More

Children aged 12 years and younger infected with COVID-19 pass the virus to other members of their households more than half of the time, according to data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

Hospital room floors are quickly and frequently contaminated with antibiotic resistant bacteria within hours of a patient moving in, says a study published by the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology....Read More

One-third of skilled nursing facilities situated in COVID-19 hot spots across the United States reported waiting three days or more for virus test results for staff and residents as of the end of September....Read More

Researchers testing technology to edit DNA during human development have found that the process often eliminates an entire section of genetic material and could threaten the health of the baby....Read More

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new concept for a face mask intended to make wearers less infectious — a potentially important tool in the fight against COVID-19....Read More

Chemicals used to improve images of the heart during MRIs are unlikely to produce allergic reactions and other side effects in patients who take them, according to a study in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging....Read More

People who received the flu vaccine in the year before testing positive for COVID-19 are nearly 2 1/2 times less likely to be hospitalized with a severe form of the disease than unvaccinated adults....Read More