Health

For millions of kids across the country, it may soon be back-to-school time — finally. After a long and incredibly hard year, the pieces of…

Coronavirus lockdowns led to air quality improvements in most countries, but the level of pollutants will likely rise as governments lift…

Allergies aren’t just a sneezy seasonal annoyance. Hay fever has major health and economic consequences. It exacerbates asthma and weakens…

There’s lots of great news about Covid-19 vaccines and one major catch. First, the good news: — Almost 6 million Americans received a…

Don’t be fooled by the packed beaches and rollback of safety mandates in several states. Covid-19 is still spreading rampantly and must be…

In Oprah Winfrey’s bombshell interview Sunday with Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, one takeaway was that help for mental health is still hard to…

US health officials say how Americans act in the coming weeks could help determine how the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold. While infection…

As spring break travel picks up and states increasingly drop Covid-19 restrictions, Dr. Francis Collins, the National Institutes of Health director,…

I spent the week of March 9, 2020, in the office, sitting across from my patients, one after another, in my office. We talked about relationship…

At the height of a luminous career in genetics, Ron Davis, professor of biochemistry and genetics at Stanford University in California, switched to…

Covid-19 numbers may be on the decline in the United States after a year of collective grief. But with tens of thousands of deaths expected over the…

Exactly one year after the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic and about three months since the first Americans…

Wesley Hamilton remembers the moment nine years ago when his life changed forever. On January 14, 2012, Hamilton got caught up in an altercation with…

The allure, and controversy, surrounding princess play is a familiar story. Girls want to be princesses. Parents fret over their daughters wanting to…

Today, March 11, marks one year since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, a pandemic. In…

The European Union’s (EU) medicines regulator has recommended authorizing Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine. The…

An increasing number of states and communities say they are planning to resume or expand in-person learning a year into the coronavirus pandemic, as…

Ultrathin dolls could be detrimental to young girls’ body image, a new study has shown. Researchers observed 5- to 9-year-olds playing with…

Early in the pandemic, young people from all racial and ethnic minority groups had higher Covid-19 case rates than non-Hispanic White people under…

Nearly one in 10 Americans — more than 32 million people — are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to data from the Centers…

It’s hard to believe that the one-year anniversary of the declaration of a pandemic is this week. It has been a long, brutal year that has felt…

Sea levels are rising, and of course that’s affecting coastal cities. But the very infrastructure that makes those cities run compounds the…