As the Thanksgiving holiday arrives, Bay Area residents can breathe a collective sigh of relief: COVID-19 positivity rates, ...

Natural deaths are now receding to pre-pandemic levels and opioid deaths, still high, are off of earlier peaks, Dr. Ben ...

Winter and family holiday gatherings often bring a surge in a wide variety of respiratory issues. Here's what to watch for.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharaya, Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health and oversee some $47 billion in research funding, agreed with Trump at the time; the public version, at least.

A new meta-analysis of studies involving more than 14 million people published in the Journal of Infection shows that ...

The antiviral drug molnupiravir (Lagevrio) slashed the risk of death from COVID-19 in half when given early to older adults.

According to the report, Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee members said in September the change was ...

A surge of stress-related drinking and alcohol-related deaths brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic in the US has not tapered ...

While long COVID is not usually immediately or directly life-threatening, it’s possible it could exacerbate existing ...

Health disparities in marginalized communities are rooted in systemic factors such as discrimination and unequal access to ...

Cases of Covid-19 have risen slightly since last week, as health officials declared a whooping cough epidemic.