With new coronavirus variants on the U.S. pandemic scene, experts say brace yourself for another surge — and mask up.

More than one-third of the U.S. population is made up of individuals with recent ancestors from multiple continents. A new genetics tool helps uncover disease-associated gene variants in these individuals.

A national survey finds that four-fifths of physicians believe that significant disabilities are associated with worse quality of life, which may have dangerous implications for the quality of health care patients with disability receive.

An 'open' approach to hardware could make production bottlenecks a thing of the past.

Parents of children in the hospital are "essential caregivers" and should not be subject to visitation restrictions, researchers argue in a new paper.

Changing how rural hospitals are paid is one way to shake up the system.

Despite worries that a new coronavirus variant may be able to evade vaccines just being distributed, a Harvard public health expert expressed confidence in the same technology that produced the vaccines in record time.

Researchers have developed a DNA test to quickly identify secondary infections in COVID-19 patients, who have double the risk of developing pneumonia while on

It seems safe to reopen schools when there are no more than 36 to 44 total new COVID hospitalizations per 100,000 people per week, say researchers.