As the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly in March 2020, many were ordered to stay at home, leading to a rise in remote work. The EU agency Eurofound, which compiled data from over 250,000 people ...

New research uncovers the hidden cost of the pandemic: millions of years of healthy life lost, with poorer countries and older adults hit hardest. Study: Direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 ...

The political decisions made during 2020 and 2021 to combat the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly altered daily life. Professionally, societies faced partial unemployment and widespread adoption of remote ...

Among 289 million adults in 18 European countries, more than 16 million years of life were lost from 2020 through 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published March 11 th in ...

English writer Aldous Huxley once said, “Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” The EU was caught off guard by the sudden shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

A new study found that reported diagnoses for tuberculosis were consistently lower than expected throughout the pandemic, even though incarceration rates remained largely consistent and TB detection ...

“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a grand scale.”—Dr. Rudolph Virchow, known as “the father of modern pathology” and the central figure in the emergence of public ...

The Black Death may have killed nearly 50 percent of the Europe’s population, making it one of the deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. Compared to the COVID-19 pandemic, which killed a ...

During 2024, the number of pandemic-prone and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks worldwide was estimated at 301. The data highlight a shift in disease outbreak patterns, with a decline in the number of ...