Public Health

The harms of the covid-19 pandemic go well beyond the illnesses and deaths directly caused by the virus. One…

At the corner of West Pico Blvd. and South Genesee Ave. in west Los Angeles sits a tan, six-story building. It’s…

When the scientists who warned the world last year that 1 million species face extinction issue a new warning about…

Scientists and public health organizations are taking a firm stance against a recently circulated document—the Great…

The White House is more madhouse lately—or at least, more than usual—so it’s important to take what it says with a…

New research from Canada is the latest to show that simply giving money to people in need helps them tremendously.…

Friends: The time has come. It’s the first day of fall, and you can partially fill the coronavirus-vaccine-shaped…

Tom Cruise has donned a very bad mask—the kind with the valves—and hit a movie theatre in London to watch Tenet, the…

The New Mutants is finally getting ready for its debut. It’s the biggest movie to open in the United States since…

New York’s public transportation agency would like Apple to come up with some way of unlocking phones that doesn’t…

Hong Kong has been a leader in the fight against the novel coronavirus, with just 1,589 cases and eight deaths,…

Anti-mask advocates rallied over the weekend at a restaurant in Florida, the current covid-19 capital of the world,…

In celebration of Disney World’s reopening after shutting down earlier this year in response to the still ongoing…

Outbreaks of an infectious, polio-like disease have popped up every other summer in the U.S. since 2012. This year,…

The U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic continues to be faltering, according to data from the…

Florida has begun rolling back its social distancing restrictions that were initially put in place in early April in…

Covid-19 is a zoonotic virus, meaning it spread to humans from animals. Scientists aren’t sure which animal spread…

Speculative fiction is often just that—speculative. Sometimes it’s an effective metaphor for real-world issues.…

Because it’s still unclear if and when countries across the world will manage to get on top of the covid-19…

Because one of the most effective means of combating the spread of the novel coronavirus is to avoid any sort of…