LIFE IN THE END ZONE

For Americans over age 65, the Covid-19 vaccine really is coming soon. States have varying policies on prioritizing distribution of the vacc...

            Once the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic finally came to an end—after killing somewhere between 50 and 100 million people worldwide...

Exactly 79 years ago today, Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, an American naval base on Oahu, Hawaii, catapulting the U.S. into World War...

On November 9, we learned that the preliminary data from the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trial are very promising; exactly one week lat...

Last Monday, the public woke to the news that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, which has been undergoing testing since...

For over, 50 years, epidemiologists had been expecting “the big one.” Like earthquakes in California, influenza epidemics have become an ine...

Earlier this month, the prestigious  New England Journal of Medicine  took the unprecedented step of publishing a political position paper i...

             A provocative, contrarian position paper (somewhat ostentatiously and bizarrely entitled by its authors a “declaration”) is cre...

            The nation is riveted by President Trump's illness: whether we hate Trump or love him, we want to know how he is faring with...

             For years, older people have been more likely to vote than have their younger counterparts: in the 2016 election , 71 percent ...