Kansas center Scot Pollard slam dunks against Santa Clara during the first half of their second round NCAA West Regional game ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment, and the ...

Massachusetts health officials are cautioning people who dined at The Red Inn in Provincetown on April 30 and May 15 to ...

Researchers studied rodent behavior to understand the relationships between different populations and how their movements ...

The family of a man who died from a tick-borne illness is warning others to be vigilant and check themselves during this year ...

A fatal virus has reportedly been discovered in shrews in Alabama, sparking concerns about potential contagion to humans. The Camp Hill virus — thought to be the first "henipavirus" in North ...

Boston area hospitals are once again requiring healthcare staff ... Data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health shows cases of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, haven ...

West Nile virus was detected in nine mosquito test samples in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Roxbury and West Roxbury, the Boston Public Health Commission announced Friday. These samples were the ...

Boston’s COVID cases, hospitalizations and wastewater keeps falling, as state health officials on Thursday also reported a dip in new virus cases and declining hospitalizations. In the city ...

as the Boston-area virus wastewater levels continue to predict a jump in local cases. The XBB omicron subvariant has now become the dominant strain in New England, according to this week’s ...

Social media users have claimed that researchers at Boston University created a new ... said in a preprint study that they created a virus combining the spike protein of the Omicron variant ...

Seeing that the omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 typically results in less severe disease than earlier strains, researchers at Boston University wanted to find out what part of ...