Sikhulile Moyo, the Botswana-based researcher who helped alert the world about the existence of the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus, has been named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2022.
Experts have been urging people to take advantage of rapid COVID tests and have offered advice on how to use them most effectively.
The U.S. government should implement stricter regulations for ‘gain-of-function’ lab experiments that modify pathogens to be more transmissible or dangerous, according to experts.
The war in Ukraine could be a watershed moment for furthering meaningful international justice, according to experts from Harvard University.
Rapid antigen tests for diagnosing COVID-19 may be less effective for new coronavirus variants, particularly the delta variant, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed new rules that ban the manufacture and sale of menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars.
A Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn the federal right to abortion in the U.S. if finalized is “humanitarian malfeasance,” according to Dean Michelle Williams.
Environmental groups are encouraging schools and companies to use non-toxic materials in their construction and renovation projects and to reduce the use of chemicals such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
With the approach of the third Mother’s Day since the pandemic started, experts are encouraging parents to prioritize self-care to combat the added parenting stressors caused by COVID-19, improve their physical and mental health, and help them show up as better parents for their children.
In a new study, Harvard Chan School’s Grace Chan and colleagues identified risk factors for sepsis in newborns in low- and middle-income countries.
