Habits are often deeply entrenched. You greet each day with a bleary-eyed trek to the coffee maker or walk the same neighborhood loop. Then something shifts. Maybe you move, land a new job, adopt a ...

Loneliness is not merely an emotional state; it acts as a physiological stressor that increases risks for heart disease and ...

Regular diagnostic testing and self-isolation can be more effective than school and business closures when it comes to combating infectious disease outbreaks such as COVID-19, according to a new study ...

Quarantine helps restrict the actions and movements of people who may have a contagious disease to see if they get sick with it. Self-isolation involves physically separating people who have a ...

On March 1, the CDC announced a change to its COVID-19 recommendations, effective immediately: It no longer advises people with the virus to isolate themselves for five days before returning to work ...

Many of us are facing conditions that might seem more like a cruel social experiment as we are cut off from connecting face-to-face with the people we typically look to for support, encouragement, and ...

A recent study published on the medRxiv* preprint server discusses the role of lateral flow device (LFD) testing in potentially improving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) isolation policies. Study: ...