The Latest Breaking News from CDC

Back in January, an academic study gave heart to critics of COVID-19 vaccines by estimating the number of U.S. deaths from the vaccines at 278,000.

Dianne Feinstein’s return to the U.S. Senate has been delayed by complications from shingles. The risk of contracting that debilitating disease can be sharply reduced with the Shingrix vaccine, made by GSK, which has its U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia.

Last month, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change charted global temperatures to be 1.1 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and on a destructive trajectory to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming by the early 2030s. This intersects surprisingly with another piece of news: the Centers for Disease Control…

Jeff Bova tried to tough his way through the infection treating it with antibiotic cream but eventually relented and went to a hospital. He sadly died two days later

For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely related, but it has been extremely rare until now.

The long COVID crisis exposes a disability claims system in disarray.

Three years on from my interview with Azeem Rafiq, it’s surreal to see where we and the game have ended up

In the U.S., more than 7,000 people died of a fungal infection in 2021, compared with just 450 recorded deaths in 1969.

A bit of legal "whiplash" could occur in the next few days, one expert says