The holiday season amplifies America's loneliness epidemic, but simple actions can combat isolation better than medication, ...

The “super flu” behind outbreaks in the US and UK is a new variant of influenza A H3N2, subclade K. Existing vaccines appear to be insufficiently effective against the virus.

Epidemic-causing viruses are linked to a small number of bat families, not bats as a whole, improving outbreak prevention ...

The Zika virus epidemic that began in Brazil in 2015 and quickly spread to other countries caused an unprecedented flood of ...

Outbreaks of disease are common, but they can vary drastically in severity. While an outbreak is merely an increase in the number of cases of a disease, an epidemic is when an infectious disease ...

Time indoors looking at screens can cause eyeballs to elongate, leaving kids nearsighted for life.

Former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has tackled a range of public health crises including Zika, drug and alcohol addiction and obesity. Now, he's shedding light on a silent crisis: the rising ...

World leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday to discuss Disease X, a hypothetical virus 20 times deadlier than COVID-19. While such a virus ...