QUICK LINKS:
Closings & Delays | New York State Coronavirus Dashboard | The Lesson Plan | We Salute You | Top Teacher | Commit to Kids | Streaming Video | WNYT Apps

Health Report

Doctors assure safety of routine cancer screenings during pandemic

Doctors assure safety of routine cancer screenings during pandemic

State senator pushes for better plan to vaccinate people with disabilities
Capital Region coronavirus infection rate higher than state average
Open enrollment for New Yorkers extended amid pandemic
Families frustrated as adult day health care programs still can't reopen

Digital-exclusive health reports from Dr. Benita Zahn. Look for new episodes every Monday and Thursday. View more episodes.

Health Beat: Weight Loss

Health Beat: Weight Loss

Health Beat: Lingering Effects of COVID-19

Health Beat: Lingering Effects of COVID-19

Health Beat: Brain Injury Awareness

Health Beat: Brain Injury Awareness

Woman, 106, who survived 1918 pandemic gets coronavirus vaccine
Coronavirus numbers see slight drop in NY; Gov. Cuomo urges vigilance
States report vaccine shortages and cancel appointments
Health leaders may face uphill battle to assure minorities vaccine is safe
Nurse advises patience, perseverance while waiting for COVID vaccine
Siena poll finds vaccine hesitancy still prevalent among some groups

More Health Headlines

Biden orders COVID-19 travel restrictions, adds South Africa
White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
California lifts virus stay-at-home orders, curfew statewide
FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, Governor Gavin Newsom addresses a press conference held at the launch of a mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. California has lifted regional stay-at-home orders statewide in response to improving coronavirus conditions. Public health officials said Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, the state will return to a system of county-by-county restrictions intended to stem the spread of the virus. Gov. Newsom imposed the stay-at-home order in December as coronavirus cases worsened and are expected to address the public later Monday. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File)
US virus numbers drop, but race against new strains heats up
FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2021, file photo, Dorothy Kade, left, holds the hand of her husband, Walter Kade Jr., as they wait in the observation room after he received a COVID-19 vaccine at the VA Medical Center, in Philadelphia. (Tyger Williams/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File)
The Latest: White House to resume public COVID-19 briefings
White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Polish president backs lockdown despite business frustration
A man delivers a supply of heating gas to Warsaw's popular Piw Paw pub in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, a business that is struggling to survive under lockdown by organizing legal, small-scale educative meetings and courses for beer lovers. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19, symptoms mild
FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2020 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador points to a graph showing the percentages of hospital beds available, state by state, during his daily news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City. López Obrador was working from isolation on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, a day after announcing that he had tested positive for COVID-19, his interior secretary said. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
EU pressures AstraZeneca to deliver vaccines as promised
European Commissioner in charge of Health Stella Kyriakides removes her face mask as she gives a statement at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. The European Union lashed out Monday at the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, accusing the company of failing to deliver the coronavirus vaccine doses to the bloc that it initially promised despite being funded by the bloc to ramp up production. (John Thys/Pool Photo via AP)
UN chief: World faces 'existential threats,' fragilities
Norwegian Borge Brende, left, President and Member of the Managing Board of the World Economic Forum (WEF) speaks U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres via videolink during the Davos Forum, in Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning global leaders that the world not only faces a COVID-19 emergency and the worst economic crisis in nearly a century but
Biden replaces White House doctor with longtime physician
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2020 file photo, then President-elect Joe Biden leaves a doctor's appointment at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Biden has brought back Dr. Kevin O'Connor as his physician, replacing President Donald Trump's doctor with the one who oversaw his care when he was vice president(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Asia Today: Australia OKs Pfizer vaccine, to begin in Feb.
A health worker takes a blood sample from a man for a coronavirus rapid test at the Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium in Bekasi, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Indonesia has reported more cases of the virus than any other countries in Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Chaos mars over-80s vaccine start in major German state
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 file photo, a man wearing a face mask walks past the Corona Center in Duisburg, Germany. The former Musical theater has been turned into a COVID-19 test and vaccination center. Thousands of elderly Germans faced online error messages and jammed up hotlines Monday as technical problems marred the start of the coronavirus vaccine campaign for over-80s in the country's most populous state. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
Thailand confirms record 914 new coronavirus cases
Workers spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus at a shrimp market in Samut Sakhon, Thailand, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Thailand on Monday registered a new daily high of over 900 confirmed new cases of the coronavirus at the province near the capital Bangkok, where a major outbreak occurred in December. (AP Photo)
EU proposes more travel restrictions to stop virus variants
FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021 file photo, officers of the German Federal Police check passengers arriving by plane from Prague at the Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt, Germany. The European Union's executive body proposed Monday Jan. 25, 2021, that the bloc's 27 nations impose more travel restrictions to counter the worrying spread of new coronavirus variants but make sure to keep goods and workers moving across EU borders. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP, File)
In ambulances, an unseen, unwelcome passenger: COVID-19
Emergency medical technician Thomas Hoang, left, of Emergency Ambulance Service, and paramedic Trenton Amaro prepare to unload a COVID-19 patient from an ambulance in Placentia, Calif., Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. EMTs and paramedics have always dealt with life and death - they make split-second decisions about patient care, which hospital to race to, the best and fastest way to save someone - and now they're just a breath away from becoming the patient themselves. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Most Read Stories

Man pulled from Lake George after falling through ice
Man pulled from Lake George after falling through ice
Supreme Court ends Trump emoluments lawsuits
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. Trump is en route to his Mar-a-Lago Florida Resort. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Troy home heavily damaged in fire
Troy home heavily damaged in fire
SUNY Schenectady opens vaccination site Monday
Registered Pharmacist Paula Agoglia fills a dead volume syringe with the COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site in the William Reid Apartments, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The syringe allows for a full 6 doses to be extracted from each vial. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, Pool)
McCoy reports 151 new COVID-19 cases in Albany County
McCoy reports 151 new COVID-19 cases in Albany County