A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, ...

Whether COVID-19 was unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals remains an enduring, fiercely contested ...

Like many other young people, Amelie feels that the COVID-19 pandemic—and its procession of lockdowns and restrictions—marked ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

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The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections—enables abstract thinking ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. For survivors of the most common type of stroke, called an ...

Frank Wampol had a dark realization when he came across some alarming data a few years ago: More than 5,000 male construction ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have improved our understanding of how rotavirus, ...

US health officials announced Friday they were awarding $590 million to Moderna to develop mRNA vaccines against influenza, ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, posing a particularly significant ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba conducted a detailed investigation on exercise-induced arterial adaptations (changes in ...