Infections from untreated decay can lead to heart disease, sepsis, brain abscesses, even death. And socially—it affects jobs, ...

Harvard scientists reveal how wildfire smoke, filled with toxic particles, is emerging as a growing health risk fueled by ...

The amended IHR would give the WHO the ability to order global lockdowns, travel restrictions, or any other measures it sees fit to respond to nebulous “potential public health risks.” These ...

Public health experts say sustained exposure to ethylene oxide increases the risk of various cancers. Here's what L.A.

If drug developers are allowed to skip this step, it will mean that, in the near future, the first living body a new drug is ever tested in will be a human.

For the second time in three years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that mpox, an infectious viral disease previously known as monkeypox, presented a global health emergency. The ...

Boston will give $5 million in grant funding to four community coalitions to address racial and ethnic inequality in health ...

While women weren’t required to be included in clinical research until 1993, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) didn’t ...