Going to a bar is supposed to be fun. You catch up with friends, have a drink—maybe even dance or chat up a stranger. But heading to your favorite pub when it reopens may seem like the exact opposite...

(HealthDay)—Boosting doses of opioid pain medicines doesn’t appear to benefit patients with chronic pain, researchers report. “What we found was that the pain relief the provider and the...

(HealthDay)—In 2018, opioid overdose deaths declined, but deaths involving alcohol, suicide, synthetic opioids, and other psychostimulants rose, according to a brief released May 21 by the Trust for...

The head of a European health advisory body on infections on Thursday warned of a second wave of coronavirus cases, as countries across the continent ease tough lockdown measures. Andrea Ammon, director...

(HealthDay)—Without quick action, the new coronavirus could sicken up to a quarter-billion people in Africa during the pandemic’s first year and claim 190,000 lives, a new modeling forecast suggests. Up...

SARS-CoV-2-risk of Infection prior to symptom onset The Coronavirus SARS-COV-2 can already be transmitted before the first symptoms occur. This is a German research team demonstrated in a recent study...

Shortly after the explosion in microcephaly cases caused by Zika virus in Brazil in 2015-16, several scientific studies were published with evidence that the pathogen is capable of crossing the human...

With multiple people sharing equipment every hour, gyms are hotspots for germs and bacteria. So it makes sense that UK gyms – along with restaurants, bars and shops – were forced to close in March,...

Pollen count is based on the measurement of the number of grains of pollen in a cubic metre of the air. The higher the pollen count, the bigger chance that someone suffering from allergies including hay...

Spain’s left-wing minority government succeeded Wednesday in maintaining the country’s lockdown in place despite criticism from opposition parties, as the national parliament endorsed a new—the...