Researchers in Barcelona say they have detected the coronavirus in a stored wastewater sample that was collected in the city in March 2019 – nine months before the outbreak was first reported in China.

The world's fastest supercomputer, a Japanese machine that can perform more than 415 quadrillion computations a second, is being used to search for a treatment for the coronavirus.

A U.S. federal appeals court on has blocked California from requiring that Bayer label its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup with a cancer warning.

A new study reports that people who are HIV-positive still face much shorter lives than other adults, even when treated with drugs.

European governments are working with the United States on plans to overhaul the World Health Organization (WHO), a top health official for a European country has reportedly claimed.

An estimated 1.7 billion people, 22 percent of the global population, have at least one underlying health condition that could increase their risk of severe illness if infected with the coronavirus, according to a modelling study that uses data from 188 countries.

A new study suggests that high blood levels of high-density lipoproteins (HDL), often described as ‘good’ cholesterol, are associated with an increased risk of heart attacks.