Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...

Long COVID, including the difficulty in defining it and caring for patients experiencing it, is discussed by JAMA Senior Editor Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, and E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, professor of medici...

Governmental information manipulation has been hard to measure and study systematically. This paper provides comparable country-level estimates of the extent of misinformation in official data, in a l...

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

Attention has waned but patients are still suffering

The Pentagon is attempting to divert billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bolster the agency’s budget, according to the top Democrat on the House Appropria…

A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AUG. 25, 2026 – DEERFIELD, Ill., Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is voluntarily recalling two lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection due to the potential presence of parti...

Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.

A Deep-Dive Patient Survey on Crashes, PEM, and What Meaningful Improvement Looks Like Post-exertional symptom worsening (PEM/PESE/PENE) and crashes were the top priority for treatment research ident...

A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...

Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.

Republicans are trying to scapegoat the infectious disease expert, even as they have gutted healthcare amid outbreaks of measles, cyclosporiasis and Ebola