Previous studies estimate that 20 million Americans have this debilitating post-infection condition; however, new research ...

High blood pressure is one of the most common health problems in the world. It affects millions of people and is often called ...

The economic instability of the last two decades — marked by the 2008 global financial crisis, the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, and subsequent surge in global inflation — shattered a period of economic ...

Better heart health during the first 3 years of the pandemic was associated with a lower risk for severe COVID-19 events.

Brain scans suggest long COVID’s biggest clues may lie in the brain’s emotion centers, not widespread inflammation.

COVID-19 vaccination is associated with a lower long-term risk for new-onset atrial fibrillation/flutter (NOAF) after COVID-19 infection, according to study results published in P ...

Nothing about long Covid adds up. All of this is very strange. Stranger still are patients’ stories of astonishing recoveries from severe long Covid, achieved entirely outside mainstream medicine. The ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Six years since the start of the COVID-19 ...

In April, a former contributor to the Beijing Normal University student media outlet 京师学人 (Jīngshī Xuérén, "Capital Scholar") noted that its WeChat ...

Millions of people use a wearable health and fitness tracker. These devices can be useful for monitoring activity levels, sleep quality, and heart rate. But for some, wearables can have unintended ...

As public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo work to rein in a growing outbreak of a rare Ebola virus, other countries are establishing protocols for keeping their own populations safe ...

Two well-known bars closed in Anchorage this month, citing rising costs for insurance, rent and supplies as major factors, at ...