A new study has found that the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past four years coincides with a new surge in many other infectious diseases far beyond their pre-pandemic levels. The ...

Dr. Matthew Memoli, a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases researcher focused on flu and other respiratory viruses, has been named acting director of the nearly $50 billion agency. A ...

A common thread among Donald Trump's nominees like RFK Jr. is a hyper focus on potential vaccine side effects as opposed to ...

Proposed legislation, should it make its way through Congress, would dismantle the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as it currently exists, replacing it with three ...

In the event of a sudden pandemic, what should we do? This month, Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes ...

The inquiry was spearheaded by FDA official Vinay Prisad, an anti-vaxxer who has cited little evidence for his claims.

Five years after COVID-19 first appeared in Michigan, ultimately killing more than 40,500 people in the state and reshaping how people work and live, local health care officials say they worry the ...

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For the first time, scientists have shown a relationship between the proportion of key immune cells that display high levels of a gut-homing protein called alpha-4 beta-7 at the time of HIV infection ...

The University of Minnesota is stepping up efforts to identify biological threats that could trigger an epidemic, launching an institute to track disease-spreading infectious pathogens at the genetic ...