The confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Trump’s Health Secretary marks a critical milestone in the deepening war on ...

President Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to halt funding of risky viral gain-of-function research—lab ...

It’s now been a half-decade since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed more than 3,350 lives in the ...

Some public health data targeted by Trump’s executive orders has been restored, but what’s changed and how will that affect health policy?

To reduce the odds of catching the flu and colds, experts say consider tried-and-true prevention methods like hand washing and mask wearing.

Non-active site mutations such as L50F are crucial for restoring the viral fitness of SARS-CoV-2 main protease. Here, the authors use full-length Mpro protein as substrate and demonstrate that ...

On this day in 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) named a disease spreading from Wuhan, China, COVID-19. On Feb. 11, ...

A second subtype of H5 bird flu, known as D1.1, was detected in dairy cattle and infected one worker in the US state of ...

Avian influenza H5N1 continues to spread. A second type of the virus, D1.1, has been detected in dairy cattle in Nevada, US. What does it mean for people?

O n Friday, February 7, a hearing took place in the Montana state legislature on a bill that would ban the use of mRNA vaccines in humans. The bill was sponsored by State Representative Greg Kmetz ...

It's an unusual winter for respiratory illnesses. The flu is peaking twice: once in early January and again in February.

For the first time since 1952, publication of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was halted. It returned on Feb.