The holiday season amplifies America's loneliness epidemic, but simple actions can combat isolation better than medication, ...

Time indoors looking at screens can cause eyeballs to elongate, leaving kids nearsighted for life.

The story everyone knows about the opioid epidemic goes like this: Big, bad Purdue Pharma aggressively marketed its potent ...

Outbreaks of disease are common, but they can vary drastically in severity. While an outbreak is merely an increase in the number of cases of a disease, an epidemic is when an infectious disease ...

World leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday to discuss Disease X, a hypothetical virus 20 times deadlier than COVID-19. While such a virus ...

Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in ...

The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 is a colonial era legislation that is still used as the primary law to control a mass epidemic. The act, most recently, has been invoked by a number of Indian states to ...

Last week U.S. Vice President Mike Pence sought to reassure the country that there was no need to fear a “second wave” of coronavirus infections. Two days later Anthony S. Fauci, director of the ...

Epidemic psychology has, as the sociologist Phil Strong noted, two meanings. There is the psychology of an epidemic – how people react to the spread of a fatal disease, often a new disease for which ...

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