Category: 6. Health

This article originally appeared on Politifact.

Over the holidays, U.S. flu cases skyrocketed.

Weekly hospitalizations from the virus went from under 7,000 at the start of December to over 33,000 by the last week of 2025,…

UConn John Dempsey Hospital is participating in the Connecticut Urgent Maternal Warning Signs Bracelet Initiative, a statewide effort to reduce preventable pregnancy-related complications and save lives.

As part of this program,…

The advice is literally centuries old: Feed a cold and starve a fever.

The adage comes from a 1574 dictionary by English writer John Withals, who wrote, “fasting is a great remedy of fever.” That is in keeping with the standard…

Randomized clinical trials remain the gold standard for establishing a medication’s effects, producing the evidence by which most drugs and interventions in the U.S. are approved.

But these studies typically require large numbers of…

Mtb has co-evolved with humans for millennia, with some estimates suggesting up to 70,000 years (Brites and Gagneux, 2015), though other analyses suggest the most recent common ancestor was ~6000 years before present (Bos et al., 2014; Kay…

Two wild animals have tested positive for rabies in Guilford County.

Health officials say a raccoon found on Spencer-Dixon Road in Greensboro and a skunk on Brotherstwo Road in Colfax were confirmed…

Two wild animals have tested positive for rabies in Guilford County.

Health officials say a raccoon found on Spencer-Dixon Road in Greensboro and a skunk on Brotherstwo Road in Colfax were confirmed…