The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines might make some cancer treatments more effective. Lung cancer patients who received the vaccine within a few months of immunotherapy, which revs up the immune system, lived ...

According to one of the most exhaustive, deep-dive looks into public health data ever conducted, there’s no evidence that the vaccines increased sudden-death risk in healthy younger people. In fact, ...

A new variant of the virus that causes COVID is spreading in the U.S. The “Cicada” variant, officially known as BA.3.2, was ...

Vaccines may be less effective against it ...

A new study suggests the true early toll of COVID-19 in the U.S. was significantly higher than official counts.

Bring out your dead” may be Monty Python’s medieval call, but counting them is still modern and often messy. Death certificates are less purely objective records than narratives assembled under ...

There’s been an increase in hospitalisations and in wastewater detections, and it’s expected to last another month or two.

A single spritz could eventually offer simultaneous protection against several infectious diseases. Researchers at Stanford Medicine have developed a new vaccine that could prevent multiple viruses at ...

Renée Onque was a reporter with the health and science team and part of the winter/spring 2022 newsroom intern class. She is a graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City ...

When you work in healthcare, especially when you work in geriatrics, you see things that laymen don’t. A friend who retired ...

Study: Identifying subtypes of Long COVID: a systematic review. Image credit: Dragana Gordic/Shutterstock.com In a recent systematic review published in eClinicalMedicine, researchers synthesized data ...