Some 23% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 between 2021 and 2023 developed long COVID, and in more than half of them the symptoms persisted for two years. These are the main conclusions of a ...

Today's health news covers how GLP-1s and BPC-157s work, ideas for cutting Medicaid, and long Covid's neurological symptoms tied to obesity.

Covid unfolded on screens for most Americans, and although the experience was in many ways collective, all our screens were different: Some showed overflowing morgues, others revealing a sham.

Today, we have begun to learn this lesson again, in the wake of the now five-year-old COVID pandemic. COVID is an acute, infectious disease caused, like the 1918 outbreak, by a virus.

Covid-19 broke the charts. Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for ...

COVID still kills more people overall each year than the flu, although flu hospitalizations this winter are double those for COVID, suggesting that flu has had a more concentrated winter peak.