According to a new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the XFG variant has four key mutations and displays ...

The new XFG strain of Covid, nicknamed the Stratus variant, is "growing rapidly", the World Health Organisation (WHO) says ...

The virologist, awarded for his part in the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, has helped save the lives of millions of ...

A promising path to fighting COVID and other coronaviruses may have been based on a serious mistake. Scientists had zeroed in ...

Coronavirus cases may surge in the coming weeks, as they have every summer since the pandemic began five years ago, experts said. Getting vaccinated, masking, improving air quality and staying away ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to ...

The COVID pandemic illustrated how urgently we need antiviral medications capable of treating coronavirus infections. To aid ...

Dan Rodricks writes about the Lake Roland COVID-19 memorial, lingering effects of the first Trump presidency, and the current ...

A letter to the US public on the AMA website, signed by 75+ medical societies, stresses the vital importance of influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 vaccines.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed the expanded use of RSV vaccines for people 50 through 59 years old who are ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

A top official at the Food and Drug Administration recently overruled government scientists on the availability of two ...