More than a decade after the old Halifax library closed, the city has begun to explore options for the site's future that ...

Not stopping the US’ measles outbreak in its tracks could have dire global repercussions By mid-April 2025, the measles ...

Recommendation of first chikungunya vaccine for persons as young as 12 years old expands access for US travelers to regions with outbreak or elevated risk of chikungunya. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, ...

Paranormal reality show Ghost Adventures is pretty polarizing in terms of believability, but the best episodes always deliver ...

Lesley Dunlop looks back at nationally-known Congregational minister, abolitionist and author Josiah Conder and his time at ...

While today's Roosevelt Island provides some tranquility amid the bustling city, it has a dark history. Blackwell's Island, ...

The smallpox came in the mail, in a little piece of 350-year-old human skin. And the surprise discovery is dramatically rewriting the history of one of the most notorious diseases to plague humankind.

Recommendation of first chikungunya vaccine for persons as young as 12 years old expands access for US travelers to regions with outbreak or ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...

reduced death in child birth and the eradication of history’s most brutal diseases like polio and smallpox. Thankfully, very few of us know what it’s like to grow up with half our siblings ...

When the Trump administration announced in February 2025 that it was cutting 10% of staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it seemed that a small but storied program within it called ...

In reality, he succumbed to a devastating plague—most likely smallpox—that wiped out as many as ten million people across the empire. The film hewed closer to received history in its depiction ...