Infectious diseases

Scientists are urging caution over a mysterious, Ebola-like viral disease that appears to have spread from person to…

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 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…

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

Here’s the most depressing map you’re likely to see this week, courtesy of Anthony Fauci, head of the U.S. National…

More than 70 years ago, an imprisoned community in Nazi-occupied Poland banded together to contain a deadly epidemic…

Today, the World Health Organization formally announced a change in its stance over very two important issues…

A group of scientists will publish an open letter to the World Health Organization in the coming days with an…

Researchers in China are sounding the alarm over strains of the influenza virus that have become common among some…

The U.S. tick problem is not getting any better. And, unfortunately, we’re doing a dreadful job at tracking their…

Just days before the World Health Organization was set to declare the official end of the world’s second-deadliest…

The World Health Organization is launching a multinational clinical trial in which four existing drugs will be used…

A Chinese doctor who was castigated for warning of the novel coronavirus during the early days of the epidemic has…

During his State of the Union address in February, President Donald Trump reiterated a promise he had made a year…

Earlier this week, British medical journal The Lancet published a brief correspondence from two Chinese medical aid…

As an outbreak of a new pneumonia-causing coronavirus is poised to spread across the globe, people in largely…

Mold infestations at a Washington state hospital have claimed yet another life, according to the deceased’s family.…

The World Health Organization has finally come up with a name for the illness caused by a newly discovered…