Category: public health

When faced with food insecurity, studies show that people gravitate toward cheap, energy-dense meals that are bad for their health.

Here’s how to recognize monkeypox’s symptoms, how to prevent and treat the disease, and what to do if you think you’ve been exposed to it.

Initial genomic sequencing suggests the virus hasn’t mutated to become more transmissible. So what explains its unprecedented rise across the world?

Viruses keep evolving until they run out of hosts to infect. Worldwide, billions remain unvaccinated against Covid—which means Omicron isn’t the end.

As countries declare endemicity and drop restrictions, how does a battered and bruised society embrace a sudden return to normality?

Last week, Texas health care policymakers discussed taking vaccination status into account for Covid triage. It’s a larger conversation ethicists are bracing for.

The White House’s plan to roll out third shots for any American adult is raising profound questions about global equity.

The federal agency will allow people living with organ transplants, undergoing cancer treatments, and taking some medications to get a third shot.

Now that authorized versions are available, it’s tough to recruit volunteers for trials that might give them a placebo. But there are other options.