Researchers are edging closer to a universal antiviral drug, a single medicine that could treat every virus known to man.

Ancient Greek sages argued that, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad!” The disclosure last week that the Trump administration’s Justice Department is initiating a criminal ...

This week’s report ranges from a big proposal to remake global health institutions to a very concrete, “cynical” decision shaping health care in a humanitarian disaster.

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside ...

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

Over 40 years, experimenters watched as hundreds of Black Americans went blind, suffered from organ failure, and died of a ...