Health

News coverage and resources related to COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Studies have shown that a significant number of people struggle to afford menstrual products, and going without can cause people to miss school or work.

State officials say nearly 18 percent of applications for pandemic “hero” bonuses in Minnesota are facing denial.

What our teeth look like can say a lot about class, wealth and beauty standards in the United States. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, MPR News with Angela Davis discusses who can and cannot access oral health care in our country, and why Americans are so obsessed with perfect pearly whites.

4moms is recalling MamaRoos and RockaRoos due to entanglement hazards from straps that hang down from the rockers and swings when not in use. At least one baby has died as a result of asphyxiation.

Requirements to test and mask and be vaccinated are becoming less common as colleges shift away from treating COVID-19 as an emergency.

About 15,000 members of the Minnesota Nurses Association have voted “overwhelmingly” in favor of going on strike, if negotiations don’t resolve differences with management of several health systems in the Twin Cities and Duluth.

Animal carriers of the virus include various rodents, dogs, primates, hedgehogs and shrews, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. Now there's a big push to increase funding for Title X, a federal program that offers birth control and other reproductive care to low-income patients.

In the U.S., officials have asked vaccine makers to target BA.5, rather than the original omicron strain. That has delayed the boosters' development — but officials hope they will be more effective.