The measles epidemic continues to spread in the United States, with an outbreak in the southeastern state of South Carolina growing to more than 600 cases, authorities said Tuesday. Amid growing ...

In 2024, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory declaring loneliness a public health epidemic. He wasn't exaggerating. The data shows social isolation is as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a ...

Newsweek has created a map showing where COVID-19 cases are growing across the country. Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the previous weekly percentage of ...

HAVANA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Cuba on Monday confirmed the deaths of 33 people from mosquito-borne illnesses in recent months in an epidemic that has hit at least one-third of the population, according to ...

Scam calls have exploded into a nationwide problem, reaching levels that experts now describe as a crisis. Americans are bombarded daily with fake delivery updates, bank alerts, and government ...

Last week President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States’ secretary of health and human services, held a press conference during which they linked use of the common pain reliever ...

Artificial intelligence is sweeping across the creative industries and nowhere is the tension sharper than in music. The generative AI in music sector is projected to grow from roughly USD 440 million ...

Researchers have shown that stress and retrovirus levels are tightly linked to disease in koalas. High KoRV loads make koalas more vulnerable to chlamydia, worsening epidemics in stressed populations.

Imperial College London's Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology reports a model-predictive control approach that times non-pharmaceutical interventions from noisy real-time case data, ...

In the immediate aftermath of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting on Aug. 27, a familiar narrative appeared on social media: The suspect, some high-profile accounts began positing, was ...

Officials with the World Health Organization are alerting the public to a potential revival of epidemic proportions. New reports show the chikungunya virus is spreading outside of its typical ...

Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use is rapidly increasing worldwide, especially among teenagers and young adults. Vaping, the inhalation of aerosol from e-cigarettes, has become a common practice, ...