The state’s life expectancy was lower in 2024 than in 2019, according to an analysis, but primarily as a result of causes of ...

March marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, ... the Globe is asking readers to share their memories of moments from the pandemic. Examples: Memories of being sent home from ...

Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) temporarily expanded unemployment insurance to freelancers, independent contractors, and the self-employed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic five years ago and many of the changes made to avoid illness have become part of life. The pandemic was deadly in ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the way the world responds to infectious disease.

The stress and isolation of the pandemic have left social and emotional scars that are already being seen in children, but scientists also predict there could be huge economic costs.

Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

In other examples of actions Hartford Healthcare took, the system sent nurses to other hospitals, built and bought warehouses, shut down ambulatory surgery centers to move staff around and into ...

Successful examples of voluntary licensing and technology transfer exist, including during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the recipients have been heavily concentrated in middle-income countries like ...