The battle over the extension of critical health care subsidies may come to a head this week as time is running out before prices are set to spike for millions of Americans. Senate Democratic Leader ...

New research shows feverish temperatures make it more difficult for viruses to hijack our cells. A mouse study suggests it's the heat itself that... Fever helps the body fight off viruses: But how ...

For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...