Hurricane Erin may not be forecast to make landfall, but the sprawling Category 2 storm is still going to impact much of the East Coast as it tracks north this week. On Tuesday, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein declared a state of emergency to prepare for the life-threatening rip currents and storm surge expected to affect the coastal region.

A new COVID-19 variant called Stratus, or XFG, is spreading in America. It was first found in Southeast Asia. The CDC says it is now the third most co

Millions of kindergarteners across the country are entering classrooms for the first time, five years after a pandemic that transformed their early childhoods overnight.

COVID-19 cases are rising across the U.S., with Texas among the hardest hit. Experts say the Stratus variant and summer travel are driving the increase.

New research from the University of Colorado reveals that common respiratory infections like influenza and COVID-19 may trigger cancer recurrence in s

Since the start of the pandemic, heath authorities have kept an eye on the number of cases across the world. While the development of a vaccine means that increased cases will no longer be met with the same lockdown policies, COVID cases are still a cause for concern, especially for the unvaccinated and immunocompromised.

Women infected with COVID experienced about five additional years of blood vessel aging, even if they had a mild case, according to results published Aug. 17 in the European Heart Journal. If a woman landed in the intensive care unit (ICU) with severe COVID, her blood vessels received up to 10 years of premature aging, results show.