Cory Franklin

On its way to oblivion is another relic from an increasingly distant era. The Ford Motor Co. plans to discontinue AM radios in most of its 2024 vehicles, according to...

Two qualities a first-class science journalist and a first-class physician must have are patience and a skeptical nature. If a new disease appears somewhere, the journalist and the physician need...

The current COVID-19 situation in the U.S. is both good and bad. The good news is that COVID-19 deaths are at the lowest levels of the three-year pandemic. Given current...

For the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, and will continue to demonstrate in the future, that America is one of the unhealthiest countries in the industrialized world....

In medicine as elsewhere in life, if you ask the wrong question, you're likely to get the wrong answer. So if the question is, "Do masks worn outside medical settings...

China has abandoned its zero-COVID-19 campaign, and with the loosening of social restrictions, the country has shifted its focus from preventing COVID-19 infections to managing them. As part of that...

In the 1967 film "The Graduate," the title character played by Dustin Hoffman attends a post-graduation party where a partygoer beckons him from the boisterous crowd and gives him a...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who began his career at the National Institutes of Health during Lyndon Johnson's administration, has stepped down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...

In a recent Monday Night Football game, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field. An immediate response by the trainers, stadium medical staff and...

In a recent NFL game, the Indianapolis Colts led the Minnesota Vikings 33-0 at halftime. At that point, Las Vegas was offering odds better than 100-1 the Colts would win,...