Sara Chodosh, assistant editor at PopSci, talks about the 2017-2018 flu season, widely regarded as one of the worst since the 2009 swine flu epidemic.
We discuss why the baby boomer generation is being hit the hardest and ways you can protect yourself. Chodosh harps on the importance of keeping your hands clean. She encourages everyone to consider getting a flu shot. Even if you contract the flu, the shot will at least help keep your symptoms moderate.
AstraZeneca said its cancer-treatment drugs when used following chemotherapy treatment showed positive late-stage trial results for endometrial cancer patients.
Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink said it received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to begin human clinical trials.
Shares of e-commerce giant Alibaba fell as China braces for a new wave of Covid.
New Census figures show about 1 in every 100 U.S. households is a same-sex couple.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard is facing disciplinary action after she spoke publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim.
Two people died from what the CDC suspects was a meningitis outbreak in Mexico.
Virgin Galactic completed its final test flight on Thursday before its long-awaited commercial access for customers.
Yellowstone National Park officials killed a newborn bison because its herd wouldn’t take the animal back after a man picked it up.
The FDA has approved Opvee, which can reverse fentanyl and other opioid overdoses.
Powerful Typhoon Mawar churned slowly over the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam on Thursday, lashing the island with wind and rain, tearing down trees, walls and power lines, flipping cars, and pushing dangerous storm surge ashore as first-responders waited for daylight to see the full extent of the damage.
