Health

How states can better regulate indoor air quality

Open any weather report for your area, and in addition to temperature and humidity levels, you'll also find the current outdoor air quality. But what about when you enter a school, an office building, a hospital, or a grocery ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Biden signs bill on COVID origins declassification

President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill Monday that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19 more than three years after the start of the pandemic.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

UK begins testing a new app to fight COVID-19 spread

Britain started testing a new smartphone app Thursday to help people find out whether they've been close to someone infected with COVID-19 after security concerns torpedoed an earlier effort to use technology to track the ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

DHS: New screening to begin amid coronavirus concerns

As the U.S. steps up its response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Department of Homeland Security is warning airline passengers that their flights may wind up rerouted if officials discover mid-flight that someone onboard ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

No 'sustained' human-to-human transmission of bird flu, WHO says

A top WHO influenza expert said Monday there was still no evidence H7N9 bird flu was spreading in a "sustained" way between people in China, despite the possibility some family members may have infected one another.

Medications

Internet led to global 'explosion' of fake drugs

The rapid growth of Internet commerce has led to an explosion of counterfeit drugs sold around the world, with China the biggest source of fake medicines, pharmaceutical experts said Thursday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mutant bird flu 'less lethal', says paper's author

The author of a paper on a mutant bird flu strain said Monday that experts agreed to publish it only after he explained that the virus was "much less lethal" than previously feared.

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