As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade. A new strain that dominated the early ...

Spring break is approaching for students across the commonwealth, and while VDH specialists say they don’t advise against traveling, they do say that any period of heightened travel can lead ...

The FDA’s independent vaccine advisers unanimously voted Thursday to recommend that U.S. flu shot formulations for the next respiratory virus season mirror those embraced by the World Health ...

From Zimbabwe to Zambia, US health deals are raising fears of a new era of biomedical extractivism.

WHO’s director of antimicrobial resistance, Dr Yvan Hutin, says science needs to catch up with drug-resistant bacteria.

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Black smoke, oil-tainted rain and rising health fears are gripping Tehran after strikes on oil facilities. Experts warn the pollution could be unprecedented. Could toxic clouds spread far beyond Iran?

There is such a thing as mental health, but it is not the same for everyone. It is a subjective good that depends on a person’s own standards.

In the wreckage of World War II, a collection of weary countries signed the United Nations’ founding document with a sense of ...

As today's researchers face a tectonic shift in the foundations of global health, it is instructive to consider another time when international health research had to be re-established on a new ...

What is Disease X? WHO warns it could trigger the next pandemic as scientists study unknown pathogens to help governments prepare.