World Health News

Find an accountability buddy. Choose a friend who wants to achieve a similar goal and make a plan. Accountability might mean meeting each other...

The spread of the coronavirus accelerated sharply in U.S. counties where large universities held classes in person last fall, federal health researchers reported on...

The versions of the coronavirus that all seven carried were virtually identical genetically — strongly suggesting that one person among them initiated the outbreak....

With hospitals in Los Angeles County swamped with Covid-19 patients, a memo that went out to the county’s ambulance crews last week caused public...

The Gamaleya Research Institute, part of Russia’s Ministry of Health, developed a coronavirus vaccine...

When I was 13, going to public pools was painful.I loved the water, but I was convinced that dozens of judging eyes were on...

My wife’s parents have led a relatively monastic existence since about mid-March.Both are in their 80s and live independently in rural Pennsylvania, maintaining a...

After Sandra Lindsay became the first person in the United States to receive a Covid-19 vaccination outside a clinical trial, something unexpected happened: She...

It will be difficult “to find and diagnose them within that vanishingly small window,” said Dr. Ilan Schwartz, an infectious disease physician at the...

They began by recruiting 20 overweight, adult men and women who were, at the start, inactive but healthy enough to walk. They outfitted the...