(Newswise)–According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the World Health Organization, depression affects 16 million Americans and 322 million people worldwide. Emerging evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic […]

(Newswise)–There is no question that the pandemic has been immensely stressful for health care workers, especially for those on the frontline of patient care. Yet, even before the pandemic, the […]

La Jolla, CA–Fast-spreading variants of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, carry mutations that enable the virus to escape some of the immune response created naturally or by vaccination.  A new study from […]

(Newswise)–The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a grant expected to total $5 million over five years to the University of California […]

(Newswise)–Around the world and within the U.S., the percentage of people wearing masks during the Covid-19 pandemic has varied enormously.  What explains this? A new study co-authored by an MIT […]

San Diego, CA–More than half of all San Diegans 12 years old and older — 50.3% — have now been fully vaccinated, County officials announced Thursday in an important milestone. […]

San Diego, CA–Health Sciences High and Middle College have partnered with Sharp Healthcare to be one of their pop-up COVID-19 vaccination sites. Beginning Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., […]

(Newswise)–Nursing homes with Black residents had higher rates of COVID-19 infection and deaths during the first wave of the pandemic compared to those with no Black residents, according to new research from Columbia University […]

San Diego, CA–The County of San Diego is preparing to offer Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations to youth ages 12-15 as soon as it is authorized by the California Department of Public […]

(Newswise)–In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers show that although two doses of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that […]