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By 2025, most experts had adopted the same position. “I think everybody now agrees that long Covid is a biologic…

As the world struggles to contain the rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, a…

As an Ebola outbreak rages in central and East Africa, public health workers say that the response has been stymied…

In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane…

A Miracle cancer therapy that involves engineering a patient’s own immune cells is being repurposed for HIV, and early results…

Anyone who has had chickenpox shares one distinct memory: the relentless, all-consuming itch.Ciara DiVita was only 3 years old when…

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is monitoring 41 people in the US for the Andes hantavirus after…

As passengers return to the US from the cruise that saw a rare hantavirus outbreak, much of the country is…

US-based pharmaceutical company Moderna confirmed that it has been working on the development of hantavirus vaccines in collaboration with the…

For decades, assessing cholesterol risk has been built around a simple idea: Lower “bad” cholesterol, lower your chance of a…

For decades, a diabetes diagnosis has relied largely on measuring blood sugar and seeing whether it crosses a clinical threshold.…

Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pursued an aggressive overhaul of federal vaccine guidance and infrastructure…

Modern biotech has the tools to edit genes and design drugs, yet thousands of rare diseases remain untreated. According to…

Some children affected by measles in the ongoing South Carolina outbreak have developed a serious complication of the disease called…