Health

Early data from an ongoing study in the UK is setting off a wave of alarm over the pandemic this week. It found…

New research detected an intriguing change in the average body temperature of the Tsimane people, an indigenous…

A study of more than 84,500 people backs prior indications that surviving the novel coronavirus may be associated…

A panel of public health experts is set to recommend that people get screened for colorectal cancer starting at age…

Preliminary research out this month may provide you with a bit more incentive to get the flu vaccine. It found…

San Francisco and Alameda counties have stopped using Verily, Google’s health-focused sister company, to test for…

A foodborne outbreak of Listeria linked to deli meats has hospitalized at least ten people in three states and…

One year ago, at the last minute, I decided to attend a presentation held by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health…

Science is moving at a rapid pace to respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic. In recent months, researchers have…

On Thursday, the United States reported over 77,000 new cases of covid-19, according to a tally maintained by NBC…

The Food and Drug Administration has approved remdesivir to treat hospitalized covid-19 patients. The antiviral…

New research from Japan suggests that a rare brain-destroying disease caused by rogue prion proteins may be becoming…

The “Empire of Pain” and the family that profited from it scored a sick joke of a settlement with the Department of…

A 28-year-old Brazilian resident participating in a covid-19 vaccine trial run by AstraZeneca and the University of…

A novel and controversial vaccine trial for covid-19 is officially set to begin in the UK next January. On Tuesday,…

A new report fresh from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights the stark difference between…

Given that the U.S. is now in this third high peak of covid-19, many Americans are understandably nervous about…

Estimated cases of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. have surged well past eight million, with estimates of about 220…

Doctors in Amsterdam say that a drug usually associated with drowsiness has given a severely brain-injured man brief…

There’s mountains of evidence that people are eating plastic—a credit card’s worth per week, according to one study.…