Marilynn Marchione

Minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Black Americans losing nearly three years and Hispanics, nearly two years, according to preliminary estimates Thursday from the CDC.

Scientists still think reinfections are fairly rare and usually less serious than initial ones, but recent developments around the world have raised concerns.

Remdesivir had been authorized for use on an emergency basis since spring, and now has become the first drug to win full U.S. approval for treating COVID-19.

Independent monitors have paused enrollment in a study testing the COVID-19 antiviral drug remdesivir plus an experimental antibody therapy that’s similar to a treatment President Trump recently received.

President Donald Trump has several strikes against him — age, obesity, elevated cholesterol and being male — that could put him at greater risk of becoming seriously ill.

Antibodies that people make to fight the new coronavirus last for at least four months after diagnosis and do not fade quickly as some earlier reports suggested, scientists have found.

Genetic tests revealed that the man had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he'd previously been infected with in March.

Preliminary results from a study showed that the drug, remdesivir, shortened the time to recovery by 31% for hospitalized patients.

The massive federally funded study provides the strongest evidence yet that tens of thousands of costly stent procedures and bypass operations each year are unnecessary or premature for people with stable disease.

A group of leading scientists declared that it’s still too soon to try to make permanent changes to DNA that can be inherited by future generations.

The second pregnancy is in a very early stage and needs more time to be monitored to see if it will last, the researcher said.

A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life.

The advice is the first update since the government’s physical activity guidelines came out a decade ago.

Wealthy people are more likely to get on multiple waiting lists and score a transplant, and less likely to die while waiting for one, a new study finds.

Former President Jimmy Carter, 90, announced Wednesday that recent liver surgery found cancer that has spread to other parts of his body.