Epidemics and pandemics are two of the worst tragedies in the history of humankind, killing millions and transforming whole civilizations. Though medicine and epidemiology have made great strides in ...

memory is of a headline. What followed was panic, disruption and mass death. Covid may feel as if it’s behind us. But we’re living in the branch of history it created. And its contours are only now ...

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The find definitively links the pathogen to the Justinian Plague marking the first pandemic (AD 541–750), resolving one of history's long-standing mysteries. For centuries, historians have deliberated ...

A German analysis explores what underlies shifts in the timing of seasonal surges of respiratory diseases, as well as shifts ...

When The Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the U.S. That’s not surprising: At an eye-popping $18 ...

A new longitudinal study published online in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease found that older adults with COPD had a heightened risk of depression during the early ...

TORONTO, ON – A recent study of more than 2,700 older Canadians reported older adults with diabetes faced a heightened risk of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this cohort, almost 50% of ...