If it feels like everyone around you is coughing, sneezing, hacking up a lung, or sounds like they're on their last leg, ...

I stopped sending peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school with my kids around 2007. That was roughly the moment when people started talking about a dramatic rise in the number of children with ...

Sid’s parents tell him to wash his hands to keep away germs. But Sid can’t see any germs on his hands, so why should he wash them? Sid and his friends learn that germs are so small that you can’t see ...

Buffets are a wonderful, gluttonous thing, whether they’re in a fancy Las Vegas restaurant or a church hall potluck. But like most things in life, they’re not free-for-alls — though we’ve all probably ...

New Covid variants continue to emerge and the symptoms have shifted somewhat since 2020 ARE you one of the thousands who have got a cold that simply will not budge? A mutant superflu, dubbed “subclade ...

In 1793 an epidemic of yellow fever killed more than one-eighth of the people in Philadelphia. Five years later one-tenth of the population died of the same disease in that city. One hundred years ago ...