Public health strategies, from vaccination to improving sanitary conditions, may have different impacts depending on whether a disease is endemic - persisting in a particular location for an extended ...

Many people who contract measles don’t know right away that they have it. Days after infection, the symptoms can feel like the flu, until the tell-tale blotchy red rash emergesu ...

It's taken three years to agree a legally binding global defense against pandemics, but now, without US participation, WHO ...

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

William Brangham: that new book is called "In COVID's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us." And it looks back at how critical American institutions, the government, academia, and the press among them ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In December, two mothers of First Nations people who were shot and killed by law enforcement tearfully and powerfully demanded a national inquiry into the epidemic of police violence at the Assemb ...

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 ...