As government officials, relief workers, and residents continue to rebuild Puerto Rico's infrastructure after last summer's Hurricane Maria, biostatistics and public health researchers have discovered more about mortality ...
Jan 31, 2018
The search for vaccines, treatments and preventive methods against infection by emerging viruses is one of the major challenges of global epidemiology. New pathological agents continue to emerge, such as the arbovirus transmitted ...
Jan 31, 2018
Twenty-one people have died from Lassa fever in Nigeria this month, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said on Wednesday, in the latest outbreak in Africa's most populous nation.
Jan 31, 2018
The doctor told Renee Gao's parents that the tumor in their teenager's chest wasn't disappearing. The girl would need a costly operation that could leave her sterile—if she survived.
Jan 31, 2018
Pancreatic cancer is a form of cancer associated with the highest mortality rates in the world. Genetic changes that could explain its aggressiveness and early metastasis are elusive. A team at Technical University of Munich ...
Jan 31, 2018
People interested in helping test Alzheimer's drugs can volunteer and get their cognitive abilities monitored on a new website run by Alzheimer's researchers.
Jan 31, 2018
Hospital and health system mergers set a record in 2017, with a new report saying networks of care providers bulked up to offer a broader range of services and prepare for new contracts that ask health systems to take financial ...
Jan 31, 2018
