Dr. Teresa Seeman was listed among the most highly cited in the field from 1960 to 2020, according to Elsevier BV, SciTech Strategies, and published in PLOS Biology.

Dr. Mel Suffet was listed among the most highly cited in the field from 1960 to 2020, according to Elsevier BV, SciTech Strategies, and published in PLOS Biology.

Dr. Elizabeth (Becky) Yano was listed among the most highly cited in the field from 1960 to 2020, according to Elsevier BV, SciTech Strategies, and published in PLOS Biology.

Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang was listed among the most highly cited in the field from 1960 to 2020, according to Elsevier BV, SciTech Strategies, and published in PLOS Biology.

Dr. Frederick Zimmerman was listed among the most highly cited in the field from 1960 to 2020, according to Elsevier BV, SciTech Strategies, and published in PLOS Biology.

As the highly transmissible Omicron variant began to surge across Colorado this month, Governor Jared Polis adopted a laissez-faire tone. Asked in a radio interview about the possibility of reinstating a statewide mask mandate, he replied that, with Covid vaccines now…

COLTON — Nine patients awaited their fate in an intensive care unit at the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center.

The youngest was 26, the oldest 66. Four of them had already been intubated, a last-ditch effort to save their lives. Inside fourth-floor rooms bare of…

Helen Cordova has celebrated two COVID-19 vaccinations in her family this month.

Her mother got a booster on her 66th birthday, then headed to a boisterous family dinner at Chili’s, something that wasn’t possible last winter when both indoor and outdoor dining…

During her first year of college, Elaina Cosentino bought a fitness band and began walking 10,000 steps a day. Through a friendly competition with friends, she kept it up for four years. But during her first semester of graduate school, her routine changed and she fell…

Q. What are the lessons learned for crisis management from the pandemic (so far) for public health professionals?

A. The ‘take-home lesson learned’ from the pandemic, and similar crises, is that no two disasters are the same, and that such forces as the…

Opening the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's newest research center, dedicated to the mission of improving the health and social well-being of sexual and gender minorities, would be a challenging task at any time. For Dr. Matthew Mimiaga, UCLA Fielding School…

“Flurona” isn’t a new COVID-19 variant. Nor is it a new disease or any kind of medical term.

The word flurona has gained popularity as a way to describe the condition of testing positive for both COVID-19 and the flu at the same time. As flu season picks up in the…

As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck.

While many companies instituted more robust sick leave policies at…

Increasing physical activity and losing about 7% of body weight can decrease chances of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes by 58%, according to nearly two decades of data collected through the Diabetes Prevention Program.

A low-cost medication called Metformin…

The omicron variant provides clues about COVID-19’s trajectory

Though omicron is infecting a record number of people around the world, for those who’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 and received a booster shot, a bout with the variant is likely to feel like an…

Ryan Tripp is caught in a nightmare.

Like it was for most athletes, 2020 was rough for Tripp, now a junior playing basketball at Los Angeles Dorsey High. Stuck in the house as COVID-19 wiped out any hope for a season. Unable to so much as hoop at the local park.…

At another bleak moment of the pandemic in the United States — with nearly 800,000 new cases a day, deaths rising and federal medical teams deploying to overwhelmed hospitals — glints of progress have finally started to emerge. In a handful of places that were among the…

The climate crisis is damaging the health of foetuses, babies and infants across the world, six new studies have found.

Scientists discovered increased heat was linked to fast weight gain in babies, which increases the risk of obesity in later life. Higher…

Whenever someone tells Jamie Chong that COVID-19 isn’t a serious threat to children, she reminds them that the common cold can send her child to the hospital.

Her son, Asher, who is nearing his third birthday, has cerebral palsy and issues with his respiratory and…

Before the pandemic, America's public health system was the envy of the world.

In late 2019, the Globe Health Security Index ranked the United States best among 195 nations in terms of being prepared to handle a public health crisis, well ahead of the next best…