As if we don’t have enough bad news to share right now, a tick species associated with bats has been spotted in New…

Newt Gingrich was on Fox News this morning explaining that all Americans should prepare for the covid-19 pandemic.…

President Donald Trump announced a travel ban on flights coming from 26 European countries on Wednesday, something…

Matt Schlapp, the organizer of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), insisted on Laura Ingraham’s…

Scientists in Denmark have squeaked out an entire human genome from a prehistoric piece of “chewing gum.” Made from…

A report compiled by an independent group of experts claims that governments and NGOs are woefully unprepared for…

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shut down a leading military research facility for failing…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week issued a warning about a disease known as acute flaccid…

New research identifies the various ways in which we’re most likely to come into contact with communicable diseases…

The end of summer is fast approaching, though the fun in the sun is coming to an even swifter conclusion for some of…

Over the past few years, there’s been a steady rise in the rate of Americans who die by suicide and drugs each year.…

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University have synthesized an artificial human prion, a scientific first that…

Leprosy is one of the oldest known diseases to afflict humans, yet its origin is mired in controversy. A new study,…

Australian pet food manufacturer Advance Pet is under investigation after its dog food was suspected to be…

It turns out the cute, harmless-looking rubber ducky floating around in your bathtub may actually be a Trojan horse…

Our conception of diabetes might be way off-base, a large international collaboration of researchers argue this…

Measles is pulling off a disconcerting resurgence across the continent of Europe at the same time the vaccination…

A former immunology expert and laboratory director at the University of Pittsburgh alleges she was fired after…

The dreaded smallpox virus was eradicated more than 40 years ago, but the threat of its return still looms. In an…

The Black Death, a plague responsible for killing around a third of the population of Europe during the 14th…