With measles outbreaks, flu spikes, and COVID as a seasonal threat, learn key differences between these contagious diseases, ...

Covid vaccines are once again on the agenda for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel.

Dr. (Hal) Scofield and I received lots of great questions when we visited the Kiwanis Club of Downtown Oklahoma City a few weeks ago. We used one, and here’s another interesting one: COVID ...

The numbers at the Northeast Georgia Health System don't lie. The COVID-19 summer surge is here. "COVID has become part of our lives, but we never took our eyes off it," said infectious disease ...

"We are emerging from one of the darkest years in our nation's history into a summer of hope and joy, hopefully," declared President Joe Biden at a press conference on July 6, 2021. "We're closer than ...

Heading into a summer, a new set of COVID-19 variants now accounts for most infections in the United States. Here’s what you need to know to stay safe. Lessons we've learned during the pandemic. The ...

THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OB GYN AND THE ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CONTINUES TO RECOMMEND THAT PREGNANT WOMEN GET A COVID 19 VACCINE. MERCY MEDICAL CENTER OB GYN DOCTOR ROBERT ATLAS SAYS PREGNANT WOMEN WHO ...

As much as most of us are all trying to limit our exposure to the outside world, some people still need to go out to work, and many need to go to the store, pharmacy or gas station. But experts say ...

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn't have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting off a ...

Two decades ago, between 1998 and 2003, the budget of the National Institutes of Health was doubled. This was an extraordinary enterprise after the multi-year post-Cold War decline in defense spending ...