Disease

Coverage of infectious and chronic diseases — their causes, mechanisms, epidemiology, prevention strategies, and the latest science on how the body fights back.

We constructed a comparison “rural” dataset by subtracting the urban case and death counts from the state totals to assess urban-rural differences.
COVID-19 vaccines are the miracle that has significantly suppressed the pandemic in a number of countries, including the United States, where the current seven-day moving averages of 
Why it may seem a bit like knowing the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin understanding the relative amounts of virions and viral particles responsible for COVID-19 will provide some insights into “pandemic dynamics” and our immune resp
During London’s Great Smog, daily deaths rose by an order of magnitude and continued for about two weeks once the skies cleared.
The subject of an email from Rick Berke, the executive editor of STAT, reads: "A landmark day in Alzheimer's disease." Berke then linked to an
Here is a graphic of vaccine’s economic value. It has a huge multiplier for the most concrete of benefits, reducing the number of individuals that require treatment - $16 saved for each $1 spent.
The EPA defines environmental injustice as a  “disproportionate share of negative consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, or commercial operations.” 
The study looks at hospitalized patients predominantly in the US along with Spain, China, and South Korea. The roughly 300,000 patients received a combination of 3455 different repurposed and adjunctive drugs.
Obesity is a description, not a “disease.”