Tag: Public health

If there is anything Americans have learned since 9/11, it is to be deeply skeptical of leaders who begin a sentence with: “If we have learned anything from the attacks ...

PARIS – French police have banned a demonstration planned to take place in front of the US Embassy in Paris on Saturday as protests mount around the world over the ...

In the last many days, as a brown woman and mother to multiracial children, I have experienced outrage, sadness and anger. Simultaneously, as an epidemiologist and public health professional watching ...

Doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) said Thursday that the coronavirus appears to be declining both in virulence and infection rate. “The virus may be changing,” Dr. ...

Two top medical journals on Thursday retracted a pair of influential coronavirus studies because of alleged irregularities in the underlying data, which came from a little-known data company called Surgisphere. ...

The authors of a study published in the medical journal The Lancet that said taking hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus could be fatal retracted their findings Thursday after multiple reports questioned ...

LONDON — At home, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being slammed for his public health response to the coronavirus pandemic, with calls for a public inquiry as the country’s ...

As nationwide protests continue over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed when a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck last month, Ohio is trying ...

North Macedonia has reintroduced tough restrictions on movement after a resurgence in coronavirus cases. The Balkan nation of around 2 million on Wednesday reported the highest number of new cases ...

Public health experts who backed strict social distancing polices for months during the pandemic have softened that stance to allow for large protests following the death of George Floyd, leading ...