The Boerne area did not escape the pandemic. The flu arrived in Texas by late September 1918 and spread rapidly through the Hill Country during the fall and winter. The flu first appeared in the local ...

The monetary cost of the opioid epidemic in Virginia has reached new heights despite a significant and steady decline in deadly drug overdoses. Opioid-related deaths make up the majority of ...

Journal Editorial Report: Tech companies and U.S. lawmakers are watching. Photo: Algi Febri Sugita/SOPA Images via Zuma Press Parents and politicians are waking up to how social media and smartphones ...

In 2024, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory declaring loneliness a public health epidemic. He wasn't exaggerating. The data shows social isolation is as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a ...

The spread of disease is not routinely connected to climate change or the environment. However, ignoring this connection would mean overlooking one important factor in widespread and deadly epidemics.

That Monday morning began quiet and drowsy — but not for long. It promised to be, the Daily Post and Record said, “the greatest day in modern history.” At first, though, nobody in Rochester on the ...

Artificial intelligence is sweeping across the creative industries and nowhere is the tension sharper than in music. The generative AI in music sector is projected to grow from roughly USD 440 million ...

Schuylkill County families faced two wars in 1918 — one in Europe, the other at home. The Pottsville Republican and other newspapers ran lists of county residents who died in World War I in France and ...

Camp Pike, 1918: The main base hospital complex covered some 20-acres to serve the many thousands of enlisted men and the 1,500 commissioned officers at the base training for World War I. The “bright ...