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The World Health Organization (WHO) says the global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by 25% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths falling around the U.S., more cities and states have moved to lift pandemic restrictions this week.

Los Angeles and San Francisco health officials will end certain proof of vaccination requirements in businesses as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to decline.

The World Health Organization says it has issued guidance advising people on how to test themselves for the coronavirus, months after critics said the lack of recommendations was compromising efforts to stop the pandemic in poor countries.

How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed after two years?

Drinking an average of only one to two alcohol drinks every day can be associated with not only with negative changes in the gray and white matter part of the brain, but also a reduction in brain volume

Spending 30 to 60 minutes on muscle-strengthening activities weekly could add years to a person's life, according to Japanese researchers.

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Wednesday that reducing the skyrocketing number of deaths in the latest coronavirus surge is the city’s priority, putting a plan to test the entire population on hold in the latest flip-flop in the government’s pandemic response.

Hawaii will lift its statewide mask mandate by March 26.

With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continuing to fall significantly across the U.S., local, state and territory governments and schools have begun to remove mask mandates.

More free at-home COVID-19 tests are available from the government.

Being optimistic may help to improve a person's emotional well-being, according to researchers. A study from the Boston University School of Medicine published Monday in the Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences followed 233 older men from the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study over an eight-year period.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said she anticipates COVID-19 will become a seasonal virus.

COVID-19 can cause the brain to shrink, reduce grey matter in the regions that control emotion and memory, and damage areas that control the sense of smell, an Oxford University study has found.

An unvaccinated child, 4, from Jerusalem, contracted the highly transmissible virus, making it the first polio case in Israel since 1988, the Israeli Health Ministry said Sunday.

After Stanford senior Katie Meyer, 22, committed suicide without any detectable warning signs, her parents are urging families to have an honest conversation about mental health with their children.

Daylight Saving time may cause more than losing an hour of sleep; it may also have a negative impact on your heart and brain health, according to several studies.

As Ukrainians flee their country from Russia’s military onslaught, they face the prospect of the invisible enemy – bacteria and viruses.

NASA satellite data has highlighted a critical relationship between low humidity and the outbreak of flu in the U.S. according to researchers.