In the era when people traveled by sailing ship and steamer, illnesses usually burned themselves out before boats reached shore, a new study finds.Read More
View More For Epidemics to Cross Oceans, Viruses on Ships Had to Beat the OddsCategory: News
These Olympic Athletes Were At Their Breaking Point. Here’s How They’re Changing Their Approach In Paris.
Olympians opened up in an exclusive interview about the effect the Games can have on their mental health, and why this time they’re taking it…
View More These Olympic Athletes Were At Their Breaking Point. Here’s How They’re Changing Their Approach In Paris.Harvey Weinstein Hospitalized With COVID-19 And Pneumonia In Both Lungs
The former Hollywood movie mogul is awaiting trial in New York on rape and sexual assault charges.Read More
View More Harvey Weinstein Hospitalized With COVID-19 And Pneumonia In Both LungsWestern Wildfire Smoke Reaches the East Coast
Wildfire smoke from the Western United States and Canada is blowing across the Northeast, lowering air quality and endangering vulnerable populations.Read More
View More Western Wildfire Smoke Reaches the East CoastRabies is Spreading in South African Seals, Scientists Say
The outbreak may be the first ever documented in marine mammals.Read More
View More Rabies is Spreading in South African Seals, Scientists SayBreast Cancer Survival Not Boosted by Double Mastectomy, Study Says
A large study showed that for most patients, having both breasts removed after cancer was detected in one made no difference.Read More
View More Breast Cancer Survival Not Boosted by Double Mastectomy, Study SaysHalting the Bird Flu Outbreak in Cows May Require Thinking Beyond Milk
A new study paints a complex picture of the outbreak, suggesting that the virus could be spreading in multiple ways and that it is not…
View More Halting the Bird Flu Outbreak in Cows May Require Thinking Beyond MilkWhy You Feel Anxious After Something Good Happens
Experts reveal what’s going on in your brain and body when your optimism and excitement also come with fear.Read More
View More Why You Feel Anxious After Something Good HappensI Felt Pressured To Go Through Menopause In Secret. Here’s What My Friend And I Are Doing Instead.
“I had absorbed the message: Do not broadcast your menopause. It will reveal your age, your lack, your expiration date.”Read More
View More I Felt Pressured To Go Through Menopause In Secret. Here’s What My Friend And I Are Doing Instead.A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure
Progress in the quest to help progeria patients suggests that gene editing techniques may help treat other ultrarare conditions.Read More
View More A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure