The government's Emergency Alert System, which causes a 10-second siren to sound on UK mobile phones, will be tested in ...

Alongside the piercing alarm sound, the Emergency Alert System (EAS) displays a notification on-screen. EAS is designed to warn people about a "life-threatening emergency" nearby and deliver ...

WHO members adopt landmark pandemic agreement in US absence Accord aims to prevent repeat of disjointed response and international disarray that surrounded COVID-19 pandemic.

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the way the world responds to infectious disease.

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

After shuttering in the pandemic, an ArcLight theater gets a second act A rendering of CinemaWest Beach Cities, a 16-screen theater complex set to open Monday in El Segundo.

The pandemic’s negative effects on kids and teens included changes to young brains, a new study has found. A researcher and a neurosurgeon comment on the impact.

The latest estimates of pandemic-era excess savings are as of September 2024. Past data will continue to be available on this site. Pandemic-Era Excess Savings updates estimates of the remaining stock ...

He blames the rise in screen time, which erodes children’s opportunities to pick up on social cues communicated through expression, eye contact, voice tone and body language.

In a new book, an Emory professor says the internet and the COVID-19 pandemic have eroded children's social skills, and schools and parents must help.

Research findings are mostly reassuring for parents — despite the disruptions to nearly every aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, most children continue to show healthy development.