LIFE IN THE END ZONE

Now that just under half of older people have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and only about a quarter have not received any vaccinat...

My 95-year-old mother has been using a computer for email since our then teenage son arranged to gift her his old computer so he could get a...

This week brought a medical article worth discussing: the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a study of the efficacy ...

              As new cases of Covid-19 fall throughout the world but the US approaches 500,000 deaths from Covid-19 and the world nears 2.5 ...

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...