Brianna Abbott is a health reporter covering the treatment and prevention of disease, with a special focus on cancer, in The Wall Street Journal’s Health and Science bureau.

A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows.

Scientists have discovered that a rare immune cell type in the lungs, called NAMs, plays a crucial role in surviving COVID-19 ...

A team at UC San Francisco and Gladstone Institutes has developed new drug candidates that show great promise against the ...

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity,” Hanlon’s razor advises us. But then again, as ...

When COVID-19 first emerged, the U.S., under President Donald Trump, made an urgent bet on vaccines — and it paid off ...

From egg prices to pet food recalls – and now, confirmation that another strain of bird flu has infected a large commercial ...

Ophthalmologists reflect on the transformative impact of COVID-19, highlighting adaptations in patient care, safety protocols ...

Cornell researchers have created a computer model that can help produce farms and food processing facilities control COVID-19 outbreaks, keep workers safe and the food chain secure.

Cha Seung-won was selected as a model for the Respiratory Synthetic Virus (RSV) vaccine 'AlexB'. GSK Korea announced that it ...

Except when we fly, or see rockets and missiles, we mostly ignore the air we breathe. But when the air becomes poisoned with pathogens, then we care about this invisible cocktail and actions we take ...

Trans-species infection and transmission of viruses, exemplified by the emergence of influenza and COVID-19 pandemics, present significant global health ...