The World Health Organization and 500 experts have established a consensus on the definition of airborne diseases. The groups are aiming to prevent confusion similar to that experienced during the ...

An international team of data scientists and rare disease specialists write that they've come up with a way to characterize and define diseases so that they eventually would be sharable among ...

After a drawn-out global controversy over the coronavirus, the W.H.O. has updated its classification of how pathogens spread through the air. By Carl Zimmer In the early days of the Covid pandemic, a ...

Thousands of rare diseases cumulatively affect millions of people across the globe, yet because each case is so rare doctors struggle to accurately diagnose and effectively treat individual patients.