Medicine

As districts plan for a school year in the middle of a pandemic, nurses are tasked with keeping students and staff healthy. Many want a stronger voice in decisions.

After the Trump administration moved hospital COVID-19 data reporting to HHS, bypassing the CDC, the new data system has been rife with erratic updates and anomalies.

Health and beauty may go together in the drugstore — but in real life, the two aren’t always so simpatico. From excessive dieting to ...

Final-stage testing of the vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., began with volunteers at numerous sites around the U.S.

Patients still receive more than twice the volume of opioids considered normal before the prescribing boom began in the late 1990s.

The more they know about the novel coronavirus, the more hospitals adapt their treatment protocols. That evolution may be lowering the local death rate.

The hackers have been linked to Russian intelligence and were blamed for hacking Democratic Party emails in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

When Pa. ordered a coronavirus shutdown in March, things were clear: Stay home. Four months later, localized rules make safety seem open to interpretation.

As COVID cases surge, we examine why in the U.S. pandemic response has failed, what we are learning about the virus, and why Pa. needed a mask mandate.

Scientists are monitoring the virus that causes COVID-19 for genetic changes that could make a vaccine ineffective. But so far, they're not seeing any.

The announcement could represent the final judgment in the effort to determine whether the drug can be used to treat patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

Thanks to COVID-19, social media has never been more important — or more dangerous. Information — good or bad — spreads at lightnin ...

The question is not just about money. It’s also about getting the word out to people who need to hear it and might not get it elsewhere.

It's a welcome bit of hope as countries grapple with spikes in contagion as they loosen restrictions and reopen their economies.

U.S. regulators revoked emergency authorization for malaria drugs promoted by Trump for treating COVID-19 amid growing evidence they don’t work