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Whenever a celebrity dies under murky circumstances, speculations run wild. The bulk of news reports about the rock star Prince’s death yesterday suggested influenza may…

Andrew Witty, who has headed GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) since 2008, recently announced that he would retire in March 2017. But the 51-year-old Witty, a marathon runner…

The Ebola epidemic that began ravaging three West African countries in December 2013 has come to an end. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health…

In a 1999 interview published in The Lancet, Scott Halstead said that his greatest regret was not having won the Nobel Prize, his worst habit…

BOSTON–A   new study pinpoints with greater precision than ever before when and where HIV entered the United States and sparked North America’s AIDS epidemic.…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—If there’s a war on science, it’s not just one war. And branding people who disagree with you about vaccines, climate change, or genetically…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—“I’m not a doctor,” Brian Malow announced at a standing-room only session in Washington, D.C., today at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science). “But…

U.S. President Barack Obama today announced that his administration plans to ask Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to beef up preparations…

On 18 April 1947, a rhesus monkey that researchers identified as 766 ran a fever of 39.7°C, about 2°C higher than normal. The monkey was…