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Police killings of any sort account for nearly 5% of all homicides, with at least 1,192 people killed by law enforcement in 2022

The world should "calm down" about the possibility of new COVID-19 variants circulating in China, leading Chinese scientist George Gao said.

No new variants of Covid-19 emerged in Beijing in the weeks after China ended its zero-Covid policy late last year, a new study said on Wednesday. China saw an explosion of infections after starting to lift its strict pandemic measures from early December, sparking fears the world's most populous country…

Global reports say companies exploit parents’ emotions and manipulate scientific information to generate sales

During the time that deaths from addiction and suicide among white Americans rose by about 9%, deaths among Native Americans shot up by about 30%, a new study shows.

This month, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug, lecanemab, for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, sold under the brand name Leqembi, was developed by Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai and will be marketed commercially in partnership with American pharmaceutical company Biogen. Biogen, notably, is the maker…

Alcohol has a profound effect on the body and mind. Here's why Dry January will help you — but just a little

The study also revealed 36,889 of that number are impacted in their daily activities because of it.

New research shows that many of those with the condition are presenting to the already overstretched hospitals putting additional strain on the health service

Vaccine hesitancy has been around for hundreds of years. So, what’s new in the Covid era?

A day before the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) began, a group of global experts convened by The Lancet published a report about the adverse health effects of climate change. Their conclusion was as jarring as it was straightforward: human health is at the mercy of fossil fuels.