Lenny Bernstein

Local public health officials fear the public is tuning out the danger as they see news reports of cratering infections, assuming vaccinations are no longer necessary.

With staff — and in some cases patients and visitors — entering and leaving facilities, community-acquired infections almost inevitably find their way inside.

The emerging trend highlights the difficulty of relying on the Trump administration's strategy of sheltering the most vulnerable while the young and healthy return to work and school.

SARS and MERS killed a much higher percentage of their victims.

A bleak series of reports showed a nation still in the grip of drug and suicide crises.

A Danish web site crunched the numbers from nearly 135,000 consumer reviews it gathered over a year, along with the suggested retail price of most of the popular brands, and unearthed some surprises.

Here are a few tips on starting up a running program and staying with it from Jennifer Van Allen of Runner's World magazine, who has run 49 marathons and is the co-author of the new book "Runner's World Big Book of Running for Beginners."

Two Dartmouth College researchers are suggesting that in some limited circumstances, the cooling value of an open, snowy field may be greater than the climate benefits that a stand of trees can provide -- and that it is possible to calculate where that might be the case.

In February, John Priscu was on top of the world. Three decades of toiling at the bottom of the world, in Antarctica, had paid off when the Montana State University researcher's team became the first to find bacteria living in shallow lakes beneath a half-mile of ice, a discovery that could help scientists understand how life might survive in the dark and cold of other planets.

Climate change is making North American forests more vulnerable to insects and disease but is helping some trees grow faster and increase their resistance to pests, a team of researchers from Dartmouth University said Monday.

The mysterious stranding of about 100 melon-headed whales in a shallow Madagascar lagoon in 2008 set off a rapid international response -- a few of the 8- to 10-foot marine mammals were rescued, necropsies conducted, a review panel formed.

The use of "seismic air guns" to determine how much oil and gas lies beneath a vast swath of the ocean floor off the southeast coast of the United States is provoking an early skirmish in a battle over oil drilling that is still years away.

In most respects, chimpanzees are physically superior to humans. But ask a chimp to throw a 90-mph fastball and the chimp is a chump.