Epidemic typhus is one of the oldest diseases known to affect humankind, and despite advances in modern medicine, it ...

A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be protective against developing dementia. While there is currently no ...

Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The creatures lived in a farming community that existed in Europe during the Bronze Age ...

Stage newcomer Natalie Haruka Ewe portrays Alice in Plague Mask Players' radical reworking of Lewis Carroll's classic fairytale.(Evan Michael Woods) It was brilliant, the treatment of Kate echoing ...

"We encourage people to get the measles vaccine," Kennedy told CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook on Tuesday during his Make America Healthy Again tour in Arizona, marking the ...

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly urged people to get the measles vaccine in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday. “We encourage people to get the measles ...

Filmed in the UK, Italy and Germany, the doc will explore how the Black Death – an outbreak of bubonic plague – swept from Central Asia throughout Europe in the 14th Century, decimating the ...

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

Want to reduce your risk of dementia? Consider getting the shingles vaccine. A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that a shingles vaccine reduces the risk of dementia. Researchers ...

Kennedy Jr., head of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, endorsed the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in a lengthy social media post—seemingly reversing some of his ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Several Section III high school athletes have acquired cool nicknames that reflect the flash and style with which they play their sport or perhaps something unique about their ...