Health

A fourth Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot is administered at the Dr. Kenneth Williams Health Center in Los Angeles on Nov. 1. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption toggle caption Damian Dovarganes/AP A …

Prime Minister Modi’s ambitious plan to transition all Indians’ health records online is running up against weak cybersecurity systems and a lack of data protection laws. (Image credit: Amal KS/Hindustan …

Some researchers are now warning of concerning levels of heavy metals in some dark chocolate bars. David Izquierdo/500px Plus/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David Izquierdo/500px Plus/Getty Images Some researchers …

The drug is the most effective way to cut the risk of severe disease. It’s heading to China now. Yet the drug is underused in some places. Why? And are …

A chimp walks at Chimp Haven in Louisiana. A federal judge has ruled that the NIH violated the law when it chose not to move former research chimpanzees in New …

Caitlyn Houston kisses her seven-week-old daughter, Parker, as they wait in the ER for a hospital bed to open up on Dec. 7 at Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital …

The pandemic did something strange to our sense of time. For Ruth Ogden, lockdown spent confined to her 3-bedroom duplex in Manchester, England, with a newborn and two boys home …

Dr. Eckart Rolshoven examines a patient at his clinic in Püttlingen, a small town in Germany’s Saarland region. Although Germany has a largely private health care system, patients pay nothing …

The National Center for Health Statistics estimates that cases of long-COVID have caused more the 3,000 deaths in the U.S., but this is undoubtedly an undercount.

Hospitals can be lonely places as the days grow cold and long — especially during the holidays, and especially during a third pandemic winter. But this year cartoonist and physician …