WASHINGTON -- The newly discovered Omicron variant of COVID-19 is "a cause for concern,...
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Twitter announced on Monday that its crowdsourced misinformation-fighting tool, Birdwatch, is introducing aliases for...
A second person with HIV seems to have cleared the infection without stem cell...
CHICAGO -- Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates adopted a...
A new think tank is promoting some old, controversial ideas about COVID-19 -- and...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When considering determinants of an individual's health outcomes, doctors and...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a surge in demand for disposable plastics that has resulted...
The Biden administration arrived this month at international climate talks in Scotland with the...
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis has initiated an investigation into America's...
Astronomers have spotted tantalizing signs of a planet in a star system outside the...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New data released today by the Temple University Center for...
Pfizer’s chief executive, Albert Bourla, made a bold promise in June. Standing next to...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Having COVID-19 was tied to a somewhat increased risk of a...
As the now ubiquitous Delta variant continues to mutate, it's spawned a new descendant...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Score one for a key climate change prediction. A multi-institutional...
Google launched a new “Data safety section” in its Google Play Store on Monday...
Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty) was 93% effective among adolescents at preventing hospitalization, even during...
Yulia Peresild spent 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) to shoot scenes...
The pharmaceutical firm Merck announced last week that an antiviral pill it’s developing can...
More than 2,000 Southwest flights have been canceled over the past few days, frustrating...
The new rules could put pressure on Facebook to take similar steps Credit: Olly...
Yesterday, Facebook users everywhere experienced an unexpected and prolonged service blackout that affected access...
WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is ramping up its purchases of coronavirus tests and...
Billions of years ago, the surface of Mars was dotted with massive lakes created...
She was having trouble getting a full breath. That was the first thing. The...
Remdesivir (Veklury) reduced risk of hospitalizations by 87% compared with placebo in outpatients at...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 55% of deaths from police violence in the...
Credit: Jay Bendt In June a well-known climate scientist opined on Twitter that “I'd...
Google held an event focused on its most famous tech—its search engine—today to announce...
The U.S. has closed the racial gap on COVID-19 vaccination, according to data from...
In the U.S., the reservoir of vaccine resistance is large enough to prevent control...
Many of the unexpected deaths in rural U.S. counties last year were not recorded...
In his Twitter profile picture, Patrick Phillips, MD, poses with a stethoscope. He tweets...
Seeds found in fossilized tracks fuel new speculation about when—and how—people arrivedFossil tracks in...
In 1374, famines struck what is now Spain, Italy, and France. The culprit? The...
Until now, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited the 1918 influenza...
The Celukan Bawang 2 power plant funded by China on Indonesia's resort island of...
The risk of severe disease dropped by factor of almost 20 in people over...
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced several actions Friday...
An FDA advisory panel recommended emergency use authorization (EUA) of a booster dose of...
In terms of preventing COVID-related hospitalizations, the two-dose mRNA vaccines from Pfizer (Comirnaty) and...
A report from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in August revealed that...
Vaccines for COVID-19 have been readily available in the United States for a number...
Masking worked, along with fewer exposure encounters, to help limit the incidence of COVID-19...
Mask mandates are needed in schools as part of a layered approach to prevent...
The Biden administration aims to reduce emissions from aviation fuel by 20 percent by...
As summer winds down and gives way to cooler weather, people are once again...
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WASHINGTON -- COVID booster shots are showing good efficacy in Israel, Anthony Fauci, MD,...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study shows that the frequency of polar vortex...