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More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the yearlong period ending in April, government researchers said.
There was a significant drop in antibiotic use during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new analysis has found.
A new surge of Covid-19 cases is expected to start hitting the United States around Thanksgiving just as the holiday season begins, public health experts are
When a Google staffing agency reneged on a promise to pay an attendance bonus, temps who are part of the company’s union organized and forced it to backtrack.
Global emissions are now less than 1 percent below their previous high in 2019, suggesting that any climate impact from the pandemic was fleeting.
Physicians are reporting the bizarre phenomenon — and #tourettes and #tourettesyndrome have amassed an alarming 6.2 billion views on the platform as of Wednesday afternoon.
A long-awaited report from a panel of Brazilian senators concludes that Jair Bolsonaro purposely let the coronavirus kill Brazilians in a failed bid for herd immunity.
A long-awaited report from Brazil’s Senate concludes that Jair Bolsonaro purposely let the coronavirus kill Brazilians in a failed bid for herd immunity.
The group includes scientists from 26 countries, a reflection of the W.H.O.’s effort to amass widespread international support for the work.
Despite an overall decline in office leasing in the United States, technology companies gobbled up more space in the Seattle area than they had the previous year.
Gunpowder used in cannons helped change the nature of warfare, but it took a while to get the recipe just right.
Public health in Africa has been a story of neglect and dependency, says John Nkengasong, the first director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control. But he’s on a mission to turn things around.
Prevention and treatment fell in poor countries last year as access to health care declined, according to a new report.
Stint, in use across the UK, has grown in popularity, alongside similar apps in the United States like Instaworks and Gigpro, as one response to the peculiar ways in which economies have been rebounding from the pandemic recession.
As the pandemic takes an unexpected direction, Americans again must reckon with twists in scientific understanding of the virus.
Uber recorded a rare profit of $1.1 billion, thanks to its stake in the Chinese ride-hailing company Didi.
For the first-quarter ended June 20, Sony said profit surged 26 percent to $2.57 billion, besting analysts’ estimates of $1.90 billion. Revenue rose 15 percent to $20.62 billion.
Governments and organizations around the world are using geospatial data and digital mapping tools to guide their vaccination campaigns.
America’s tech companies have been leading the way for how large employers should aid in the country’s pandemic response.
If funded, a government program costing several billion dollars could develop “prototype” vaccines to protect against 20 families of viruses.
He explored how viruses multiply. An accomplished administrator, he also turned the Howard Hughes Medical Institute into a global biomedical powerhouse.
Fraud and computer misuse offences have risen by more than a third in England and Wales, largely driven by the coronavirus pandemic.
Cases, hospitalizations and deaths remain far below last winter’s peak, but the director urged people to get fully vaccinated.
New coronavirus strains are a risk, but experts say human behavior and social interactions that lead to superspreader events remain the most serious threat.
The need for social distancing led restaurants and grocery stores to seek technological help. That may improve productivity, but could also cost jobs.
New scientific research underscores the effectiveness of vaccines and their versatility in the fight against the coronavirus.
The business of cryopreservation — storing bodies at deep freeze until well into the future — got a whole lot more complicated during the pandemic.
Marie-Christine Nizzi, a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College and the Brain Institute at Chapman University, studies trauma and resilience, which
While the United States edges toward normalcy, countries like Japan, South Korea and Australia are still facing months of uncertainty and isolation as their vaccination campaigns just start to gain steam.
While the United States edges toward normalcy, countries like Japan, South Korea and Australia are still facing months of uncertainty and isolation as their vaccination campaigns just start to gain steam.
Shi Zhengli, a top virologist, said in a rare interview that speculation about her lab in Wuhan was baseless. But China’s habitual secrecy makes her claims hard to validate.
Global emissions dropped last year, but the decline wasn’t nearly enough to halt the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Lander said he is particularly focused not so much on this pandemic, but the lessons learned from this one to prepare for the next one.
Suspicions have focused on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which long gathered bat viruses and whose laboratories conducted experiments on them.
Early studies reveal the toll that lockdowns, isolation and stress have taken on those who care for older Americans.
Storms, floods, wildfires and to a lesser degree, conflict, uprooted millions globally in 2020 — the largest human displacement in more than a decade.
As life slowly returns to some version of normalcy in the U.S., psychologists are confronting a difficult reality: Many people won’t be back to normal anytime
Colorado Mesa University and the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard have spent the last year exploring new approaches to managing outbreaks.
The researchers issued a call to action to improve indoor air quality as a safeguard against the spread of contagions like the coronavirus.
The behavior is common in East Asia, but there’s no tidy scientific consensus on how much it limits the spread of respiratory illnesses. Now some wonder how the idea will go over in the U.S.
