Public Health

One in four abortions in the U.S. rely on telehealth access to mifepristone, but antiabortion activists want to ban it

The Trump administration warned that too much screen time for children has been linked to poor sleep, bad behavior, and less physical and social activity

A deadly Ebola outbreak in parts of Africa is raising international alarm. Still, experts stress that the chance of a pandemic is low

A decade after Ebola vaccines changed outbreak response, a new epidemic in central Africa is caused by a strain the world never fully prepared for

Scientific American spoke to one of the people who are currently being monitored for possible hantavirus infection at the National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska

At least six Americans are believed to have been exposed to the Ebola virus, and one person who appears to have contracted the virus has been evacuated to Germany

Researchers at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory worked round the clock to develop a test for the Andes virus at the center of the deadly cruise ship outbreak

As world health leaders face deadly outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola, a major pandemic preparedness report finds we are less safe from viral outbreaks than before COVID

What you should know about hantavirus, why PCOS is getting a new name, and how some fish hide in an unusual spot

Researchers know very little about how long the Andes version of the hantavirus can remain in human hosts

Hantavirus misinformation is spreading fast. COVID trauma and social media algorithms may be to blame

The hantavirus cruise outbreak may not have started in a garbage dump in Ushuaia, Argentina, after all