Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid ...

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How should one respond to grief and loss? D.H. Lawrence, the Bible and a decade-old TV series all provide non-definitive ...

From the first reported cases of HIV in 1981 to the latest breakthroughs in long-acting prevention, this Spotlight timeline traces key moments in the global and South African response to the virus. It ...

Thomas Mann, from behind, 1930. Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, famously spends seven ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to end its monkey research program will affect studies involving some 200 macaques, and the fate of the animals is unclear ...

By turning our backs on effective policy that prevents people from dying needlessly, we are complicit in a serious crime. Given the hundreds of thousands already dead, with millions projected to join ...

Ending child poverty is within reach, UNICEF argues, because solutions exist. Meet some of the children and families who are ...

Patti Smith talks about 'Bread of Angels,' her latest book. Smith wrote the book over a 10-year period, chronicling her ...

The U.S. just shipped two million doses of lenacapavir, a groundbreaking twice-a-year HIV-prevention injectable medication, ...

Some complain that “Orwellian” has become the most overused phrase in current political discourse, but I beg to disagree. Although George Orwell succumbed to tuberculosis — and perhaps political ...