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The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that its inspectors detected cyclospora at the Mexican farm blamed for the largest foodborne illness outbreak of the parasite in U.S. history.

It's October and time for flu shots. Medical experts urge getting a flu vaccination soon, before influenza starts spreading widely—and to get up to date on protection against other fall respiratory viruses, too. Updated COVID-19 ...

Global life expectancy is close to the levels seen before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the outlook for years lived in good health is recovering more slowly, the WHO said Friday.

New research presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Milan, Italy (Sept. 28–Oct. 2), and published in Diabetologia shows that the incidence (the new case rate) of type ...

Pharmacies across the United States continue to close at a rapid rate, leaving millions of Americans in "pharmacy deserts," where they lack convenient and reasonable access to the care these community health hubs provide. ...

People who recovered from COVID-19 infection or were vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to have immunity to other closely related bat coronaviruses that could threaten future human health.

Recently, a middle-aged woman came to see me in my ophthalmology clinic because her eyes felt gritty and uncomfortable. She had seen another doctor a month earlier who diagnosed her with eyelid inflammation and wrote her ...

A new study led by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published in Brain Communications found that a transcranial low-amplitude magnetic field intervention delivered twice weekly into the brain ...

As communities across the U.S. grapple with the rapid spread of Flock cameras and questions about who can access the data they collect, a new study from a University of Massachusetts Amherst public policy researcher reframes ...

On average, Australians seem quite happy in their relationships.

When it's time for another vaccine, many people may ask themselves a familiar question: Do I really need another one? The answer may depend, at least in part, on how protected they think they already are.

Playing with your children or meeting a friend for coffee are everyday activities that many people move between without giving much thought to how much mental or physical energy they take.