The COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives from a virus that has killed more than seven million people globally. Many safety studies and real-world evidence from billions of doses show that the ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Six people were killed in the March 2024 bridge collapse. The cargo ship that rammed into Baltimore's Key Bridge in March 2024, shortly after experiencing two blackouts, initially lost power due to an ...

Researchers say they believe they've documented the first known death from alpha-gal syndrome — a red meat allergy caused by tick bites. The findings, by researchers at the University of Virginia ...

A 29-year-old woman was killed and three others, including a child and infant, were injured Sunday night when another vehicle hit a patch of ice and lost control, colliding into them head-on in a ...

While an argument to re-integrate JavaFX floats in an OpenJDK discussion list, Oracle ponders providing better access to JavaFX from the JDK. Just as a proposal to return JavaFX to the Java ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amazon's data center in Ashburn, Va. (Ted Shaffrey/AP) (AP) Amazon says Amazon Web Services, its cloud computer service that ...

A Cleveland Clinic web page describing myocarditis survival rates was misrepresented online as news that millions who received COVID-19 vaccines were about to die. A spokesperson for the Cleveland ...

Power blackouts that left millions of people across Spain and Portugal without electricity may have been caused by a bizarre atmospheric phenomenon, though the true cause is yet to be determined. When ...

An explosion near a UNESCO world heritage site in Yemen’s capital on Sunday killed 12 people, according to health authorities tied to the Houthi-led government. By Vivian Nereim and Shuaib Almosawa ...

Reheated rice syndrome, or fried rice syndrome, is food poisoning caused by the Bacillus cereus (B. cereus) bacterium. Symptoms can include vomiting and diarrhea. Reheated rice syndrome can happen if ...

Police say a violent crash in Collin County that claimed the life of a beloved school nurse was caused by a suspected drunk driver with a previous DWI arrest. The crash happened at about 5 p.m. on ...