The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people to what most people regard today as a tolerable annoyance that doesn't ...

An outbreak of deadly bacteria at a Bay Area homeless encampment has sparked urgent calls for action in Los Angeles, with ...

As we investigated the causes and cures of sickness within us, we began to change our views of the universe outside,” Susan ...

Chronic kidney disease is a global public health concern, defined as sustained damage to the renal parenchyma that results in deterioration of kidney function with eventual progression to end-stage ...

At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, 180 world leaders pledged to achieve significant advances in the well-being of the world's poor by 2015. Several of these "Millennium ...

TO most, rubella sounds like a virus from a bygone era – something you associate with grainy black-and-white photos of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Once almost exclusively seen in older adults, fatty liver disease, which can be fatal if untreated, is now one of the world’s fastest-growing diseases. And it’s increasingly occurring ...

As India races to fill empty plates, it is quietly filling hospital beds, proof that the nation's next public health battle ...

Speakers at the workshop will present on how the opioid epidemic has changed the epidemiology of infectious disease, particularly in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi ...

“The Quiet Epidemic,” a feature documentary about the tick-borne illness Lyme Disease, has released its trailer ahead of the film’s premiere in the Special Presentations category at the Hot Docs film ...