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According to the C.D.C., the risk to public health remains low. But the country’s initial approach has had an unsettling ...

The details, reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine, underscore the risk to farm workers in the ongoing outbreak among U.S. dairy cattle and the need to wear protective gear to avoid ...

The new pact and a series of updates to existing rules on dealing with pandemics are intended to shore up the world's defenses against new pathogens after the COVID-19 pandemic killed ... is the vexed ...

The amount of virus was found to be almost fourfold lower in patients in the trial who took metformin vs. non-medicating placebo pills.

For as long as statistics about opioid overdose deaths have been collected in the United States, white individuals have been ...

The EU's drug watchdog urged Tuesday that anti-COVID jabs be updated before another round of vaccinations to counter a new variant of the virus, which is still claiming thousands of lives.

Aligning economic incentives with global health goals is not only a moral imperative but a practical necessity for economic ...

A potential treatment for COVID-19 may have been hiding in our medicine cabinets, a new study in PNAS has found ...

A multicenter study has identified a potential new treatment for acute heart failure, a leading cause of hospitalization and death.

Despite huge advances in our understanding of COVID-19 over the past four years, the disease is still very much among us—and ...

A drug he took for lymphoma, rituximab, depleted all the immune cells that normally produce antibodies for COVID-19, they added ... pre-pandemic levels. Health News // 5 hours ago Myth that ...