Panic and pollution are driving a surging market for protective face masks in Asia, where fear of the virus from China is straining supplies and helping make mask-wearing the new normal

Federal prosecutors in Vermont say a health information technology company will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil charges that it helped set up an electronic health records system that encouraged physicians to prescribe opioids to people who might not need them

As the coronavirus outbreak rages on in China, at least 110 people in the United States are undergoing testing for the new respiratory illness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday. Five people in the U.S. have been hospitalized with confirmed cases of the coronavirus: one in Washington, one in Illinois, one in Arizona and...

Chinese Health Ministry officials say the coronavirus outbreak is spreading faster than anticipated, noting that the virus is contagious during its incubation period before any symptoms may show.

China has expanded sweeping efforts to contain a viral disease by postponing the end of this week’s Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home and avoid spreading infection as the death toll rose to 80.

A person in Orange County has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency’s Communicable Disease Control Division. The case involved a traveler from Wuhan, China. In consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the California Department of Public Health, the HCA said it ...

The new virus accelerated its spread in China with 56 deaths so far, and the U.S. Consulate in the epicenter of the outbreak, the central city of Wuhan, announced Sunday it will evacuate its personnel and some private citizens aboard a charter flight.

The U.S. Department of State is making plans to move personnel stationed in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus, to the U.S. in a one-time flight to San Francisco, a department spokesperson said in a statement. The department anticipates that there will be limited capacity to allow some passport-carrying U.S. citizens to travel on the f...

The new virus from China has the world on edge because it’s a close cousin to viruses that killed hundreds in separate outbreaks

China’s most festive holiday began in the shadow of a worrying new virus Saturday as the death toll surpassed 40, an unprecedented lockdown kept 36 million people from traveling and authorities canceled a host of Lunar New Year events.

In October 2018, little Lucas Parker shared a salad from a pizza place with his father during a family vacation to California, NBC News reports. Fifteen months later, the once-rambunctious 3-year-old is blind, can barely move and needs constant care. “After everything he’s been through and everything’s that happened in life, there...

The federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy case of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set a June 30 deadline to file claims against the company

China is swiftly building a 1,000-bed hospital dedicated to patients infected with a new virus that has killed 26 people, sickened hundreds and prompted unprecedented lockdowns of cities during the country’s most important holiday.