Early adult death rates spiked during COVID-19 and stayed high in 2023, driven by drug deaths and other health crises.

New research finds that the number of COVID-19 deaths was large enough to result in a $205 billion net increase to the Social ...

The latest average life expectancy at birth is 81.5 years across the five boroughs, the city health department says.

Colleen McClain, Olivia Sidoti and Monica Anderson contributed to this chapter. For many Americans, life in the early days of ...

Still recovering from heavy spending during the pandemic, hospitals are squeezed by a slumping economy and government efforts ...

The new study is the largest yet to test whether there’s a link between child development and COVID vaccination or infection ...

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%) say the COVID-19 pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it ...

Officials said Tracey Dotson and his partner used stolen identities to file hundreds of false unemployment claims in multiple states.

As COVID-19 surged across the US starting in 2020, so too did the use of repurposed medications such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to treat COVID-19 infections. Use of these medications ...

Adults with high levels of "playfulness" showed stronger resilience during lockdowns compared to more serious individuals.

An investigation reveals how a Gauteng hospital renovation project, initially budgeted at R50m, ballooned to R500m, prompting ...

Researcher Iain Hardie said: “Our study suggests that neither SARS-CoV-2 infection, nor Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy ...