Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and ...

Germany was quicker to roll out the first line of defense against outbreaks: containment efforts such as testing, contact tracing, and border restrictions meant to completely stop disease ...

Francois Venter, a big rock climber, once drank tequila with the PhD-holding virologist rockstar Dexter Holland of The ...

A new study suggests that widespread, regular chest X-rays, powered by AI, could significantly reduce tuberculosis cases and ...

Scientists sometimes compare predicting the course of epidemics to forecasting the weather. But there's a major difference—the impact of human behavior—says Alessandro Vespignani, director of ...

On January 22, 2019, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control declared Lassa fever a public health emergency, following a spike ...

An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus ...

A new study sheds light on one of the great enigmas of microbiology: why only certain strains of common bacteria become ...

A new study by the Genomics and Microbial Evolution Group at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) together with the ...

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

The US is no stranger to epidemics. As far back as the 1600s, for example, Americans were falling victim to smallpox. Since ...