Panic buying of toilet paper, no meat or soap on supermarket shelves, and now an apparent run on medicines such as asthma puffers and children’s paracetamol. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting us...

How fast could COVID-19 spread in Australia? And how many people could potentially be infected? We can’t of course know for sure, but we have enough data to make some rough forecasts; and being...

The World Health Organization has been criticized for being slow to declare a public health emergency and a pandemic as COVID-19 spread. Yale SOM’s Saed Alizamir, with Francis de Véricourt of ESMT...

Actress Sarah Hyland spoke out about her fears surrounding the novel coronavirus. Sarah was born with a kidney condition and has undergone two kidney transplants. She says she plans to stay home amidst...

‘Men are more likely to get it, home testing kits are reliable and Vitamin C can prevent it’: The coronavirus myths that went viral Fake news and health myths have sprung up on social media...

Life expectancy in the USA is no longer rising. This stagnation has long been largely attributed to increasing numbers of drug deaths due to the opioid crisis. But Mikko Myrskylä and colleagues have...

As we brace ourselves for the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus, it may be worth looking at a study carried out by the Chinese Center for Disease Control. The research, which studied the impact of the...

“Biology shows us that there are additional ways to reduce the risk of serious coronavirus infections, in addition to hand hygiene and keeping distance,” Viola Vogel writes. We all know the...

New research at Trinity College Dublin, published today (Thursday, February 6th, 2020), shows that the number of people dying in Ireland with palliative care needs will increase 84% to 2046. The study,...

While there are no shortage of technical approaches for hackers targeting a healthcare organization, the fact of the matter is that many attacks start with doctors, administrative workers and the other...