Families everywhere are adjusting to a new way of life due to social distancing measures like closed schools, workplaces, and more.

Consider these expert tips for cleaning your home to kill the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (and the pathogens behind other deadly diseases).

As the nation adjusts to the threat of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, it’s only natural to worry whether a cough or aches and pains could be signs you have become infected by the virus.

As concern about coronavirus grows, hand sanitizer is in high demand. Biologist Jeffrey Gardner explains why alcohol is a key ingredient in hand sanitizer, and why he doesn’t recommend making your own supply at home.

When people are sick with a respiratory disease like COVID-19, they cough or sneeze particles into the air.

Public health officials in California’s state capital region announced this week they have stopped tracing the contacts of patients diagnosed with the novel

The U.S. government is fighting to contain and slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Testing is central to these efforts.

The coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, has created enormous anxiety, uncertainty, and disruption to our lives.

If you saw the 2011 movie “Contagion,” about a worldwide pandemic of a new virus, then you’ve heard the term “R0.”

Safety measures make risky activities less risky: seat belts for car occupants, bailouts for financial institutions. Masks and disinfectants might feel like they do the same for anyone afraid of coronavirus.

Now officially a pandemic, the virus has proven adept at crossing borders, with confirmed cases reported in over 100 countries (for the latest numbers, refer to our coronavirus mapping tool).

As the coronavirus death toll continues to rise, some have suggested that the approaching warmer spring weather in the northern hemisphere may slow or even stop the spread of the disease.

Just over 20 years ago, people from three generations of an American family were referred to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington DC with an unknown disease.

The risks of psychiatric disorders and suicide attempts are substantially higher for young people from 15 to 25 years old with type 1 diabetes, a new study shows.

In June 2019, a paper by prominent US academics found that people who used e-cigarettes were at greater risk of a heart attack.

When certain patients “teach back” a doctor’s instructions, they’re more likely to stay out of the hospital, according to a new study.

Variable blood pressure readings could be an overlooked early warning sign of heart disease, researchers report.

Sleep paralysis is a type of REM parasomnia or abnormal behavior that takes place during the REM sleep cycle.

Life expectancy is built up out of many small pieces, one for each age, and demographers can pick those pieces apart. 

We tend to notice mucus only when it’s abnormal and the sticky fluid is expelled from orifices.