Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

The South's health disparities begin with its landscape and the region's agricultural history that compounded these health disadvantages.

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has reached a 33-year record high, years after it was officially eliminated in the ...

We are becoming a welfare state with an economy attached,’ said Kemi Badenoch in a speech on sickness benefits today. She’s ...

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Child mortality has been halved in the last 25 years. Building on this progress, new innovations in immunization are working ...

The price crushed the previous auction record for a handbag - $513,040 paid in 2021 for a Hermès White Himalaya Niloticus ...

A new report by the U.N. AIDS agency says the sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global ...

Using a high-throughput fluorescence microscopy system and machine learning algorithms, oxidative stress-related changes in ...

Climate change is making tick-borne illnesses more common, which makes tick prevention strategies even more critical.

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

Wastewater may look dirty, but it’s become a vital tool for public health. This video explains how researchers analyze sewage ...