Maryam Moraveji was pregnant with her second child when her doctors told her she was at very high risk of losing her baby. “You are at a point where this child will probably come around 26 weeks, ...

Rachael Robertson is the youngest and only second female expedition leader at Davis Station, Antarctica. Leading eighteen strangers around the clock for a full year—through months of darkness and with ...

The Japanese word hikikomori translates to “pulling inward.” The term was coined in 1998 by Japanese psychiatrist Tamaki Saitō to describe a burgeoning social phenomenon among young people who, ...

We are all dependent on our screens for interpersonal communication. But what damage is that dependence doing to our brains, and why is it important to shut all your screens off once in a while? On ...

Self quarantine can get pretty lonely — especially if you’re used to spending a lot of time around other people on a daily basis. But there’s one group who are real pros when it comes to isolation: ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Rodney "Rocky" Sickmann was a young Marine serving at the U.S. Embassy in Iran on Nov. 4, 1979, when an ...

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TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Contact tracing is hard enough for COVID-19, but when people don’t follow isolation and quarantine restrictions it makes containing the virus virtually impossible. The Lucas ...

Three leading public health and social psychology experts warn that the U.K. is failing to apply vital lessons from the COVID ...

Austin Public Health says about 56% of people in Travis County are now partially or fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Some pandemic restrictions have been relaxed, and people are starting to gather ...

Isolating the most severely ill Ebola patients before the fifth day of their illness may be the most effective way to reduce transmission of the virus, new research led by the Yale School of Public ...