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The video game legend tells WIRED that connection and isolation are major themes of his highly anticipated sequel. The game will be available on PlayStation on June 26.

NB.1.8.1 has mutations that could increase the virus’s transmissibility and decrease the efficacy of certain neutralizing antibodies against it.

Casey Means isn’t currently licensed as a doctor. But that’s not why anti-vaxxers and conspiracists think she’s unsuited to be surgeon general—to them, her anti-vaccine opinions aren't extreme enough.

Wildfire season is coming. Here are the best disposable face coverings we’ve tested—and where you can find them.

The attention being paid to a Chinese outbreak of a virus often confused with flu is a sign that respiratory infection tracking is improving.

A surveillance system proven during Covid-19 is now being used to track outbreaks of RSV.

New vaccines could help stem the spread of respiratory syncytial virus, but there are already huge inequities in access and uptake.

RSV infects almost every child before they turn 2, and kills more than 100,000 infants worldwide each year. Machine learning and statistical models are identifying those most at risk.

This is the first case of H5N1 in the US this year that has sent a patient to the hospital.

Researchers have been working on mRNA flu vaccines since before the Covid-19 pandemic, but we may get one for bird flu first.

The search for a shot that could protect us against many strains—and maybe a pandemic—is notching achievements at last. But the flu’s endless mutation and our own biology stand in the way.

A study of bones held in a Cleveland museum reveals a new side to the pandemic’s story—and a new way to think about pandemics to come.

Researchers are trying to understand more about the biological and social differences that contribute to later diabetes diagnoses and worse outcomes in women.

Growing rates of type 2 diabetes across the African content offer scientists hope of creating new, more inclusive treatments.

Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut, will it have to betray its first patients—type 1 diabetics?

There’s mounting evidence that GLP-1 drugs have health benefits beyond diabetes and weight loss, for conditions ranging from addiction to Parkinson’s—and scientists are evolving theories of why.

One billion people experience migraines, yet the perfect treatment is still out of reach. Can a vibrator offer a surprising solution?

Women suffer from migraines three times as often as men, and often with more intensity. New research into the role of hormones is helping explain why.

Migraine sufferers are often triggered by the weather, and research suggests warming temperatures and more extreme weather events worsen attacks.

Research on the visual patterns that foreshadow migraines may reveal clues on how painful headaches arise from the brain even though it has no pain receptors.