Our air quality is affected by nearby environmental factors, as well as ripple effects from thousands of miles away.

Award-winning science journalist and author Carl Zimmer details the dangers of new viruses, air pollution and wildfires on ...

When COVID-19 emerged in early 2020, it was a novel virus with no prior identification in humans. The only certainty among ...

Investment in medical oxygen systems could save millions of lives by filling gaps in oxygen access for more than half the world's population and boosting pandemic preparedness, says a report published ...

DRASTIC, a group of internet users with no expertise in virology, has been pushing their hypothesis of a research accident in ...

CDC holds that vaccines are a safe, effective way to protect your health and prevent the spread of flu, COVID, measles. What ...

All 194 countries in the World Health Organization imposed COVID travel restrictions. The authors of When the World Closed Its Doors argue it was a failure.

China has cowed many of America’s elites, celebrities, athletes and politicians into silence. They fear losing jobs, ...

The WHO defines healthy life expectancy (HALE) as the “average number of years that a person can expect to live in ‘full ...

We know that there’s more epidemics coming, and there’ll be another pandemic, probably like COVID, within the next 15 to 20 years,” said a report author.

Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, public weariness and irresponsible politics are hampering an effective ...

The head of the WHO insisted it was "now or never" to strike a landmark global accord on tackling future pandemics, despite ...