Health

Influenza cases have been surging. RSV activity is “very high.” Signs of COVID have been mounting in sewer water, and norovirus, too, is spawning outbreaks like we haven’t seen for...

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed a new rule for nutrition labels on packaged food and drinks that’s intended to help Americans make healthier choices at a glance. ...

Kate Middleton made a visit Tuesday to the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, where she underwent cancer treatment last year. During the outing, which was her first solo engagement in...

Jen Fisher can do only so much to keep her son safe from the types of infections that children can encounter at school. The rest, she said, is up to...

Sierra Leone has declared a public health emergency after two cases of mpox were reported. The West African country’s health minister announced the move on Monday after the second case...

Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency Monday after the country reported its second case of in less than four days, health authorities said. Neither patients were known to have...

I’ve noticed that people on dating apps tend to fall into two categories: “messagers” and “meeters.” The first kind wants to message for a while to make sure there’s enough...

For most of his career as a public school teacher, my husband’s paycheck has hovered just above the poverty level for our family. This past summer, my children even qualified...

The risk of developing dementia may be much higher than previously thought, a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine has found. Older studies estimated that about 14% of...

WASHINGTON — About a million Americans a year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly double today’s toll, researchers reported Monday. That estimate is based on a new study...