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The Biden administration is planning to propose a ban on menthol cigarettes, a long-sought public health goal of civil rights and anti-tobacco groups that...

It’s also not clear how long first-dose protection lasts without the boost from a second dose, Dr. Fauci said during a White House press...

Mark Rasch hopped on his bike Tuesday in Bethesda, Md., pedaled off for an afternoon ride, and realized he forgot his mask. As he...

By now most people are familiar with how the Covid-19 vaccine is typically administered: a quick jab to the upper arm. But there is...

For day camps, the C.D.C. said that children 2 and up should wear masks at all times except when eating, drinking, swimming or napping,...

The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines are 94 percent effective at preventing hospitalization in fully vaccinated adults 65 or older, according to a small...

Given these statistics, you might expect that the record for longest life span would be increasing, too. Yet nearly a quarter-century after Calment’s death,...

What young people find when they go looking for fitness information can be highly problematic. They are likely to come across harmful “thinspiration” and...

So, for the new study, which was published in March in the Journal of Applied Physiology, scientists at the University of Virginia School of...