Wastewater may capture the number of COVID-19 infections in a community—even before testing results or hospitals become overcrowded.

Being harmed by the pandemic may give people a better understanding of the structural sources of inequality.

Researchers have shown that mice with gene variants previously linked to Alzheimer's disease were at greater risk of dying of COVID.

Accounting for ethnicity and social factors may improve the strategies public health officials use in future pandemic, researchers report.

Big data and artificial intelligence are helping determine if drugs already on the market can pull double duty to treat new COVID variants.

There are still lots of good reasons to wash our hands, but avoiding the flu isn't one of them, says expert Emanuel Goldman.

When schools closed during the pandemic's first year, emergency federal programs helped 30 million kids access nearly 1.5 billion meals each month in 2020.

Researchers have modified the CRISPR gene editing tool to serve as a diagnostic test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID.

With each new variant of SARS-CoV-2, there's concern that rapid testing may not be able to keep up. New research tries to figure things out.

As COVID-19 restrictions lift, cases of flu are expected to rise this year, making it more important than ever to get the flu vaccine, says David Cennmino.