Disease X, a term shrouded in mystery and caution, represents not a specific illness but a placeholder for the unexpected, a ...

A History of the World in Six Plagues" explores the racial and class inequalities linking infectious disease epidemics.

Fentanyl and other opioids have fueled the worst drug crisis in U.S. history. In recent years, fatal overdose numbers have become defined by illicit fentanyl, an extremely lethal synthetic opioid ...

Kennedy on Thursday said the agency would ax 10,000 full-time employees spread across agencies tasked with responding to disease outbreaks, approving new drugs, providing insurance for the poorest ...

The Obama administration continued the work, taking an aggressive approach to the Ebola epidemic ... with concrete examples, Rivers continues. This is a goal of public health messaging, but it mostly ...

Because electronic devices were not widespread when myopia started to increase, it is thought that the myopia epidemic could be ... that feedback is broken, for example, if kids are exposed ...

Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens. By Carl Zimmer and Apoorva Mandavilli ...

On 24 March 2020, India announced its first Covid lockdown, just as the world stood on the brink of a global pandemic that would claim millions of lives. India's already fragile healthcare system ...

He also said he believed the pandemic had shaken the world out of complacency and shown the value of advancing medical technology, lateral flow tests and a joined up approach to infectious diseases.

While gathering considerable popularity and coming to run profitably in the following years, Zoom truly entered the public consciousness during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. It was to Zoom that ...

From ongoing issues around children’s mental health and poor school attendance to a seismic shift in the way we work – and a rise in pandemic ... things – PPE as an example – and they ...