Health

The vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE may offer some protection against a mutation in the new fast-spreading variants of the coronavirus that have emerged from the U.K. and South Africa, according...

Dr. Peter Goadsby, professor of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been chosen as one of four recipients of the Brain Prize 2021. The prize honors scientists who have...

Ahead of the US Presidential Election 2020, America's top infectious diseases expert seemingly praised Joe Biden's campaign for taking the pandemic seriously and criticised the Trump administration The White House has responded to Dr Anthony...

The death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus has risen to nine, as dozens more cases were reported across China. All deaths happened in Hubei Province, of which Wuhan is the provincial capital, according to an...

Long working hours led to 745 000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29 per cent increase since 2000, according to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization and...

Okay, admit it: You sit at a desk most of the day or hunched over your phone DMing memes to your friends. By the time you're home for the evening, you have some serious...

The COVID-19 vaccines are here, but if it's your turn to get vaccinated, how are you supposed to sign up? The answers vary by place, so NPR created a tool to help you understand how...

So much of the COVID-19 pandemic is beyond your control — all of our control — and yet it’s undoubtedly affecting you, your family and your community. However, you can feel more empowered by...

Sometimes it seems that every magazine, newspaper, radio show, and piece of mail has a headline declaring that every woman’s risk of developing breast cancer is increasing. There is a numbing feeling of inevitability...

There are no pills, vaccines, or supplements that can cure COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, which has spread around the world, killing more than 50,000 people, infecting over 1 million, and...