Younger adults who experience frailty face a higher risk of death and emergency hospital admission, according to new University of Dundee research published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity. The study, led by Dr. Daniel Morales from the University’s Sch…
A new study highlights a transformative resource for public health: the unprecedented wave of COVID-19 oral history archives collected since the start of the pandemic.
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine have developed a new and highly effective application of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to quickly scan notes in electronic medical records and identify high-risk patients who may hav…
A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm—the first reported U.S. case tied to travel to a country with a current outbreak.
New York City health officials confirmed a sixth death linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem where 112 people have now been diagnosed.
Brucellosis is a serious and often neglected disease endemic to many low- and middle-income countries around the world. Because it shares many of the same clinical symptoms as malaria—including fever and joint pain—it can be misdiagnosed.
Health experts across the country are issuing warnings about a surge in infections from a “flesh-eating” bacterium known as Vibrio vulnificus.
A resident of South Lake Tahoe, California, has been diagnosed with the plague, the state’s first human plague infection since 2020.
Despite the increasing recognition of long COVID as a condition, many patients still face dismissal by medical professionals, misattribution of their symptoms to psychological causes, or simply being left to fend for themselves. The study describes the…
Hundreds of people may have been exposed to rabies after staying in cabins infested with bats at Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park.
