Health

Early in the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said something that grabbed a lot of attention: Handshakes should become a thing of the past. It...

DW: Are you satisfied with the way Indian authorities are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic?   Poonam Khetrapal Singh: India took bold decisions such as screening people at ports of...

A new study suggests there are instances when authorities attribute “cardiac arrest” as the cause of death when in fact the victims died of drug overdose (OD). University of California...

Many U.S. universities are revamping campuses to resume in-person classes despite COVID-19, requiring students to be tested, wear masks and socially distance, but some college town residents and critics say...

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 736,000 people worldwide. Over 20 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by...

New Zealand has announced its first locally transmitted coronavirus infections in more than 100 days, prompting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to issue a stay-at-home lockdown order for the country’s largest...

MOSCOW — Russia on Tuesday became the first country to clear a coronavirus vaccine and declare it ready for use, despite international skepticism. President Vladimir Putin said that one of...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the...

Twenty years ago, Erin Brockovich was released, and the brash, unvarnished legal assistant turned activist at the heart of the film—memorably portrayed by Julia Roberts in micro-miniskirts and vertiginous high...

As the nation focuses on safety issues around going back to school during the pandemic, a new report found a sharp increase in the number of Covid-19 cases among children...