It was bird poop. Everyone had finished their supply of drinking water, and no one had hand sanitizer in their backpack. Two ...

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Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, public weariness and irresponsible politics are hampering an effective ...

Paxlovid may offer marginal benefits for low-risk children with COVID-19; however, among high-risk children with COVID-19, Paxlovid is a safe oral option.

There are some new tools to help this respiratory virus season: over-the-counter tests that can identify whether an illness ...

The grant will go towards the administration of field tests for polio designed to help detect the disease in impoverished ...

Five years later, COVID-19 is still among us. But the country emerged from that experience weary of the efforts to safeguard people, suspicious of the science and expertise of those who worked to ...

Five years on, COVID-19 reshaped US work, tech & faith. 32% still work remotely, while misinformation & political divides ...

UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento has seen “five or 10 times more influenza (patients) than COVID (patients)” in 2025 alone, according to Dr. Dean Blumberg, the hospital’s chief of pediatric ...

The US Centers for Disease Control ... either: Wastewater testing also shows high levels of the virus that causes Covid-19 across the country — well above levels seen at the start of winter.

In a study published today in Biofunctional Materials, Prof. Dr. Haidar, Founder and CEO of BioMAT’X I+D+I LABs in Santiago, Chile, explores a new era in healthcare diagnostics driven by ...