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Cities continue to dismantle homeless encampments despite recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hold off during the pandemic to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

Federal officials say the sites have been closing or transferring to state or local control because it’s more efficient to run testing that way.

The pandemic is reportedly taking a greater toll on women. Yet women are underrepresented in expert groups that decide how to control the coronavirus and where funds should go.

If you miss your mom and dad — or they miss their grandkids — how safe is a summer trip? Older people are more likely to get seriously ill from the coronavirus, so consider these tips to reduce risk.

House Democrats will likely press them and others for details on whether President Trump has stymied health experts from taking quicker, more effective action to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

The program shipping swabs and other supplies to labs is one of the Trump administration’s efforts to ensure sufficient coronavirus testing. But some of these supplies have turned out to be hazardous.

A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s rule affecting LGBTQ discrimination in health care was filed Monday. Plaintiffs say last week’s Supreme Court decision has put “wind in our sails.”

In The Turnaway Study, Diana Greene Foster shares research conducted over 10 years with about 1,000 women who had or were denied abortions, tracking impacts on mental, physical and economic health.

Wisconsin was already facing a shortage of caregivers who provide crucial health services and help their clients live and work independently. The pandemic has eroded this workforce even more.

More than 35% of students surveyed experienced mistreatment in a U.S. medical school. “There’s a direct link between this abuse and how some … health care disparities play out,” a black doctor says.