A girl with polio meets one of the first children to get a polio vaccine. Bettmann/Getty Images By Elena Conis Graphics by Sara Chodosh and Aileen Clarke Dr. Conis is a historian of medicine and ...

Australians lived with “significant restrictions on our human rights” during the COVID-19 pandemic, a landmark new report ...

The spread of H5N1 bird flu has sickened dozens of Americans, resulted in a nationwide egg shortage and led to the deaths of ...

Scientists have developed a vaccine using virus-like particles (VLPs), which mimic the poliovirus but do not contain any ...

The measles outbreak in western Texas is continuing to grow with a total of 223 cases confirmed, according to new data ...

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has reached nearly 300 cases, with doctors warning that the disease can bring ...

Five years after the WHO declared the COVID global outbreak to be a pandemic, frontline health care workers reflect on what they remember of the early days of COVID.

Doctors and nurses at the time were being pushed to their capacity as hospitals and urgent care facilities piled up, putting ...

Credit: Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images A priest uses gloves and a mask to give Communion ... In her religious excemption ...

The U.K. Christian right is increasingly drawing on a U.S.-forged playbook. It is also drawing on U.S. money. But the U.K.

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