Audio Timeline Slider: Use the left or right arrow keys to decrease or increase the slider value. Period pain, Payne says, is a key variable in health studies that may seem unrelated to menstruation, ...

The 2025-26 flu season is surging with an increase in influenza-like illness across the U.S. — and in Michigan — with a new variant known as subclade K. The spread of influenza-like illness has ...

The 2025-2026 flu season is surging in the U.S. and New Jersey, where there's been increased severity of influenza A, with further testing from the CDC showing many NJ residents have the emerging ...

A genetic technology known as a gene drive could help prevent malaria by spreading genes in wild mosquitoes that stop them transmitting the parasite. Tests in a lab in Tanzania have now confirmed that ...

Deaths linked to malaria last year rose last year, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, warning also of an increase in cases and resistance to current treatment. There were some 282 million ...

A scavenger species, the Andean condor plays a vital role in ecosystems by preventing the spread of diseases found in carcasses. But human communities overlapping with their habitat have often ...

Every cell of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the organism that causes malaria, contains a tiny compartment full of microscopic iron crystals. As long as the parasite is alive, the crystals ...

Treating baby wraps with a mosquito repellent shows promising protection against a top killer of children. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen has reported on efforts to combat malaria for more than 25 ...