Five years after COVID-19 first emerged, the United States is still grappling with the aftereffects of the pandemic that killed millions of people worldwide. They include the gaps in the nation's ...

Take a look back at movies that explore worlds in which viruses and diseases (or related metaphors) run rampant.

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

Driven by rising rates of high blood pressure, obesity, and other key risk factors, heart disease remains the leading cause ...

In honor of Black History Month, we're covering five milestones in Black health history, from the good and great to the bad and ...

If people had been aware of the existence of bacteria and their role in causing the Black Death in the 14th century, as well ...

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

Dominating the book is an image of institutional space, beige, concrete, and lightless: the warehouse, the hospital, the ...

While maternal deaths in the U.S. declined in 2023, Black women still died at more than three times the rate of white women ...

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023.

H5N1 bird flu poses a potential threat, potentially leading to an airborne pandemic. Increased cases ... with one reported death in Louisiana. Although current strains of H5N1 do not spread ...