The world's oldest person, Spain's Maria Branyas Morera — who was born in the United States and lived through two world wars ...

During the pandemic, long COVID emerged as a medical curiosity. Now, it is changing how scientists think about infections.

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The recent outbreak of the rare Andes hantavirus has once again drawn attention to terms that became widely familiar during the COVID‑19 pandemic: endemic, epidemic and pandemic. These concepts are ...

Nothing about long Covid adds up. All of this is very strange. Stranger still are patients’ stories of astonishing recoveries from severe long Covid, achieved entirely outside mainstream medicine. The ...

My book argues that epidemics are never simply medical occurrences. During the Covid-19 pandemic, politicians across the ...

A remarkable new study of the world’s oldest verified living person reveals a surprising picture of extreme longevity.

A Leicester charity which dates back before both world wars and the Spanish Flu is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Charity Link, located in the city's Millstone Lane, originally founded as the ...

Memorial Day honors U.S. military service members who died while serving the country. Historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, co-authors of "War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow ...

Louisville’s Maricia Richardson grew up hearing that she didn’t need to get vaccinated. She didn’t consider herself “anti vax” — more like vaccine hesitant — and much of that resistance was rooted in ...

Virologists and public health specialists have warned about the pandemic threat for years. H5N1, a problem in chickens for decades, first infected humans in 1997, in an outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...