As a parent, it might feel like you are constantly giving your children worm treatments – usually in the form of chocolate or sweetened chewable tablets....
My colleagues and I published the most detailed studies of the earliest events in the COVID-19 pandemic last month in the journal Science. Together, these papers...
The NCR weekly positivity rate decreased to 16.4% as of August 12 from 17.5% as of August 6. This is the first time in the current...
Around 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. While anti-seizure medications are available and effective for the majority of people with the condition, 20%-30% don’t respond to...
Person-centred care (also known as patient-centred care) is the philosophy of giving power back to patients and putting them “at the centre” of care. It can...
A new virus, Langya henipavirus, is suspected to have caused infections in 35 people in China’s Shandong and Henan provinces over roughly a two-year period to...
Just over a month after the Supreme Court struck down 50 years of federal protection of abortion rights in the U.S., at least 43 abortion clinics...
ISTANBUL – Researchers are monitoring a newly identified virus in China that appears to be transmitted from animals to humans. While more than three dozen cases have...
Monkeypox is caused by a virus that, despite periodic outbreaks, is not thought to spread easily from person to person and historically has not spurred long...
Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like...