As the summer surge of COVID-19 crests, many people are weighing whether they need to get booster shots now to protect against the disease (SN: 7/19/24). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ...

The next big one won't come from the hantavirus cruise outbreak, but there are still lessons to take away from it, experts say.

U.S. Army Maj. Jenny Allen, a registered nurse assigned to the 534th Medical Detachment, 3rd Medical Corps, checks the fluids being administered to a patient at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, ...

A little-known tree from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest may hold a surprising weapon against COVID-19. Researchers discovered that ...

Late last month the New Zealand government released a 700-page report from the first phase of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19, examining the country’s response to the pandemic from 2020 ...

Comment: Long Covid has quietly become a mainstream chronic illness, affecting 4.3 percent of adults. This is comparable to rates of other chronic health conditions such as ischae ...

Unlike in a hurricane or war zone, much of covid’s toll happened out of public view, inside the crowded hospitals where people died on ventilators, often without families by their side in the early ...

The Covid-19 pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) stands as the fastest-spreading and most extensive global health crisis that humanity has faced in a century ...