Karen Weintraub

Regardless of how the COVID-19 pandemic started, it's clear that deadly diseases can jump from animals to humans ‒ and a new report from Harvard

USA TODAY Move over Taylor Swift. Vice President Kamala Harris may be one-upping you ‒ at voter registration anyway.

Nancy Frates' son Pete was captain of every team he ever joined. And there were many. So when Pete was diagnosed with ALS at age 27 and vowed to change the trajectory of the fatal disease, she trusted that he would.

A Missouri resident has tested positive for bird flu even though there is no evidence the person came into contact with an animal infected with the

When May-lee Chai was in high school in the early 1980s, a Chinese restaurant finally opened in the small South Dakota town where her family lived.

A new approach to cancer treatment became available shortly before Jimmy Carter needed it. Now it's a pillar of care.

After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the US arrested 125,000 Japanese-Americans, merely because of their ancestry. Some worry it could happen again.

Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY Updated · 5 min read A form of brain cancer called DIPG has killed every child and young adult who's ever been diagnosed.

Trump chose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run Health and Human Services Department, which oversees NIH, CDC and FDA, among other agencies.

On Nov. 18, 1883, Americans adopted four standardized time zones, replacing a confusing, dangerous hodgepodge of times.