WHO, AMA, AAP and existing standards recommend that people who have never received a COVID-19 vaccine, are age 65 and older, are immunocompromised, live at a long-term care facility, are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant, and/or want to avoid getting long COVID-19, should get the vaccine, especially.

Hurricane Erin may not be forecast to make landfall, but the sprawling Category 2 storm is still going to impact much of the East Coast as it tracks north this week. On Tuesday, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein declared a state of emergency to prepare for the life-threatening rip currents and storm surge expected to affect the coastal region.

COVID-19 cases are rising across the U.S., with Texas among the hardest hit. Experts say the Stratus variant and summer travel are driving the increase.

Millions of kindergarteners across the country are entering classrooms for the first time, five years after a pandemic that transformed their early childhoods overnight.

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 shed a light on, and exacerbated, many health inequalities that were in some ways obscured from the gaze of the global population. The disproportionate effect the pandemic had on marginalised groups was clear for all to see.

New research from the University of Colorado reveals that common respiratory infections like influenza and COVID-19 may trigger cancer recurrence in s

State and federal officials have targeted health programs in efforts to trim what they call wasteful spending. But advocates have pushed back.