Public Health & Medicine

A COVID-19 outbreak at a summer camp in Illinois is a reminder that young people are taking a risk by not getting vaccinated, health officials say.

Despite unproven efficacy, Biogen set the drug’s list price at $56,000 per year.

In a milestone for gene therapy, drugmakers Intellia Therapeutics and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals reported results from the first clinical trial using Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR technology to treat disease inside the human body.

Doctors need mental health support. Here’s why many aren’t getting it.

Increased public investment in child care is needed to help families access high-quality, affordable child care that meets their needs.

Overall, 34% of adults aged 18–39 years reported having received ...

A cluster that began with an airport limousine driver has jumped to nearly 100 cases, with dozens more expected over the coming days.

Pfizer and AstraZeneca work together well in a two-dose vaccination schedule; so do three doses of AstraZeneca, researchers find in separate studies.

Cases of type 2 diabetes among children more than doubled during the coronavirus pandemic at one Louisiana hospital, according to research presented Friday. The researchers say the cases increased in severity, too.

By rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher says he recovered 13 early coronavirus sequences that had disappeared from a database last year.

The Alzheimer’s treatment will cost $56,000 per patient, and millions may use it. The result: “crazy numbers” for Medicare.

It also has lots of false alarms.

This cohort study externally validates the Epic Sepsis Model in the prediction of sepsis and evaluates its potential clinical impact compared with usual care.

A new and slightly changed version of the Delta coronavirus variant is spreading in a number of countries including the United Kingdom, United States and India, health officials say.

U.S. Latinos have a higher life expectancy and earn more yearly when they live in integrated neighborhoods.

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Fear has invaded the Mexican border city of Reynosa after gunmen in vehicles killed 14 people, including taxis drivers, workers and a nursing student, and security forces responded with operations that left four suspects dead.

The pandemic and political tensions might slow the march towards more globalized science.

There isn't even good information about how common it is.

Research indicates hospital consolidations tend to raise prices for private insurance providers without necessarily improving care.

When hospitals acquire physician practices, it can influence how individual physicians practice medicine, two new studies show.

Mucormycosis has killed hundreds in India and forced many to have an eye removed.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed adult vaccination rates by age through May 22, finding 80 percent of adults older than 65 had been immunized compared with just 38.3 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

Patients are desperate for hope. But there are serious concerns about Biogen’s new $56,000 treatment.

Research suggests humans cannot slow the rate at which they get older because of biological constraints

It's greater than the population of Baltimore or Milwaukee.

As recently as June 4, states with higher vaccination rates did not have significantly lower case rates than states where few people were vaccinated.