Health

The number of United States adults saying they have returned to living their “normal, pre-COVID-19 life” has more than doubled over the past six months, survey results show. Increasing numbers…

Studies have shown that the same active ingredients in sunscreens that protect people from cancer-causing ultraviolet rays can be toxic to a range of species in oceans, rivers and lakes.…

Monkeypox is caused by a virus that, despite periodic outbreaks, is not thought to spread easily from person to person and historically has not spurred long chains of transmission within…

What students learn in sex ed has taken on new urgency following the Supreme Court’s decision in June to reverse Roe v. Wade, leaving abortion access up to the states.…

One big hope about AI as machine learning improves is that we’ll be able to use it for drug discovery — harnessing the pattern-matching power of algorithms to identify promising…

The global COVID-19 response has been unprecedented, but it has also been deeply fragmented and inequitable around the world. While high-income countries are now taking steps to reach the next…

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the field of public health has sprinted a marathon to address the ongoing crisis — we have implemented mass vaccination plans, pushed back against…

Globally, access to COVID-19 vaccines has been uneven. More than one year since vaccines became widely available in high-income Western countries, many lower-income countries have struggled with supply and have…

It’s a haunting irony that New Yorkers and the nation have crossed the second anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns just as the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) has…

Since the onset of the pandemic, the nation’s healthcare system has struggled to keep up with high demand for emergency care, vaccines, and COVID-19 testing. More than two years on,…

Two years after COVID-19 halted cross-border mobility in its tracks, most countries are seeking to fully restart migration and mobility. Sweeping border closures and travel bans have largely been phased…

Mobile technology has become ubiquitous to 21st Century living, in terms of how we receive and exchange information, for both social and economic interactions. Many of us start our day…