BOSTON (AP) — Alone in his hotel room after a solemn dinner with his brother, the newly enlisted Army surgeon took up pen and paper to make the first installment on his promise. “I have a few moments, ...

Hundreds of academics across the world have welcomed efforts to introduce privacy-friendly contact tracing systems to help understand the spread of coronavirus. A letter, signed by nearly 300 ...

Two leading former federal health officials who served in recent Republican and Democratic administrations are spearheading a call for a $46 billion public health investment in a future coronavirus ...

The prolific novelist’s correspondence, collected for the first time, trace a life of literary brilliance, turbulent loves ...

What is more moving: the meaning of important words or the trace left by their formulation, the sense of a precious document or the lines of ink that convey it? Does it matter, for example, that until ...

Growing up in Lynn, I had listened eagerly to my dad's vivid stories about the Civil War and the grandfather he never knew. But until two years ago, when my oldest brother, Putnam, handed me a heavy ...