HEALTH

It might be time to ditch your old Teflon cookware. Spending each morning at the kitchen sink scraping at the...

The woman had no risk factors for the disease and exactly how she caught it is a mystery. A young...

With several coronavirus vaccines barreling through late-stage trials, adults could receive an approved vaccine in months. But even then, we...

Since first appearing in late 2019, the novel virus, SARS-CoV-2, has had a range of impacts on those it infects....

The true toll is likely much higher. At least 1 million people have now died from COVID-19. This grim milestone...

Black licorice contains a compound known to be toxic in large doses. A man in Massachusetts died after eating too...

People infected by the novel coronavirus can have symptoms that range from mild to deadly. Now, two new analyses suggest...

Some mutations have no effect, while others could impact transmissibility. In early January, the first genome sequence of Sars-CoV-2 —...

Humans spend about a third of our lives sleeping, and scientists have long debated why slumber takes up such a...

The coronavirus pandemic has reached another bleak milestone in the United States. The coronavirus pandemic has reached another bleak milestone...

A new study combines evolutionary genomics from coronavirus samples with computer-simulated epidemics and detailed travel records to reconstruct the spread...

Obesity is the main cause of type 2 diabetes and related chronic illnesses that together will kill more people around...