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He survived 13 years of neglect and abuse, including sexual assault, at the notorious Pennhurst State School and Hospital outside Philadelphia before emerging as...

A stark lack of testing in many African countries has kept officials from being able to track the pandemic, prompting fears that a recent...

The C.D.C. has sent about $11 billion in relief funds to states and local jurisdictions for expanding coronavirus testing and contact tracing. A survey...

But other experts noted that the impact of preventive measures taken by states — including stay-at-home orders, closures of restaurants and nonessential businesses and...

Severe gum disease and tooth loss may be linked to an increased risk for developing dementia, a new study has found.Researchers looked at 8,275...

First, Indonesia’s agriculture minister promoted wearing a necklace containing a eucalyptus potion to cure the coronavirus. Not to be outdone, the governor of Bali,...

Coronavirus outbreaks have swept through three Alaska fish processing facilities and a factory trawler in recent weeks, stressing an industry already facing an unstable...

It is hard to know how much my patient, caught in an eternal childhood, understood about his cancer.Source link

Monkeys given the Moderna coronavirus vaccine and then deliberately infected were able to fight off the virus, quickly clearing it from their lungs, researchers...

A Dangerous PossibilityThe child was cranky and didn’t want to be examined. Both of his feet were obviously swollen. So were his hands and...