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STAT reporter Helen Branswell explains how difficult it is to predict just how bad the upcoming flu season will be.

My first hint came via Twitter on Dec. 31, 2019, when I saw the health and medicine journalist Helen Branswell warning of “unexplained pneumonias” in China. The plot beats that would follow ...

This came up when STAT’s infectious diseases reporter Helen Branswell surveyed three dozen experts about their own risk tolerance amid the summer surge. Citing Johns Hopkins scholar Dr. Amesh ...

STAT senior writer Helen Branswell reflects on the trajectory of the Covid-19 pandemic: about the wishful thinking that led some experts to assume what was happening in China would not happen ...

Now, reports Helen Branswell for STAT, rules for antibiotics in animals just got stricter in a bid to protect humans. A new rule about antibiotics in food animals is now in effect, writes Branswell.

Helen Branswell, medical reporter for the Canadian Press, says she largely prints out information on H5N1 and files it away for later use. "I find, these days, I'm not paying less attention to it, but ...

Phoebe Hall reports. An interesting symposium on the first day featured presentations from STAT Senior Writer Helen Branswell (Boston, MA, USA) and correspondent for Science magazine Kai Kupferschmidt ...