Even when the news is bleak.

New research shows that July may have been the deadliest month for young adults in modern American history.

We will work to make COVID vaccinations easy to get. We need you to sign up, encourage your loved ones to do the same, and commit to the second shot.

Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at a Queens hospital, was the first recipient of the vaccine in the US, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.

Nature - I’m curious what lockdown will reveal about the ‘maternal wall’ that can block faculty advancement.

The rapid, saliva-based antigen test for COVID-19 has gotten a bad rap. It is the better, preferred tool for outbreak control. Here’s why:

Infectious disease chiefs of Boston’s teaching hospitals urge the community to step up in mitigating coronavirus

As we ring in a new year, here are our resolutions; please consider joining us.

A sensationalist approach to scientific reporting, with dramatic headlines that omit important limitations or lack context, benefits no one.

Containment is possible with competent government and public buy-in

Several Boston-area researchers have joined in authoring an open letter published Wednesday evening in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet that criticizes herd immunity as “a dangerous fallacy...

As college students head home for the holiday during the coronavirus pandemic, an infectious disease doctor and a public health expert offer sobering advice.

The coronavirus crisis is not over. Discussions of reopening should, by necessity, be part of a unified strategy that also includes plans to reclose.

On October 3, the FDA approved coformulated tenofovir alafenamide and emtricitabine (F/TAF) for HIV prevention in at-risk “adults and adolescents…excluding those who have receptive vaginal sex.” F/...

This fall, the nation looks certain to face enormous health challenges needing clear guidance. Yet the United States has no national plan for actio…

Citing a lack of evidence, the agency will require Gilead to conduct additional trials in individuals ‘who have receptive vaginal sex.’

There’s still time to get this right.

The federal government must work to ensure adequate supply of the coronavirus drug — and distribute it evenly and transparently.

We are committed to recommending distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine when a vaccine meets the rigorous standards of safety and efficacy

Two studies show promise, but physicians have more questions than answers about the data.

This Viewpoint discusses public health strategies necessary for the US to relax its mitigation strategies—most notably expanded testing, isolation, and contact-tracing in ways that avoid stigmatiza...

The new White House strategy won’t be able to protect vulnerable populations.

This analytic modeling study defines the screening performance standards for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests that would permit the safe return of students to US...

Two studies show promise, but physicians have more questions than answers about the data.

They balance the public health benefits of keeping the population safe — and in school — with the need to maintain a strong economy to support all the residents of our state.

I take comfort in her words, that each of these parts of our lives — working, mothering — can each be a respite from the other. That she was successful because she was a mother, not in spite of it.

This analytic modeling study defines the screening performance standards for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests that would permit the safe return of students to US...

This Viewpoint discusses questions about clinical indication, supply, distribution, and cost and coverage that will need to be resolved if monoclonal antibodies are be granted Emergency Use Authori...

One Judiciary Committee member tested positive after a meeting 11 days ago. His contacts should have been isolating for 14 days.