March 24, 2025
(NPR) – Investigating one of the deadliest moments of the war in Gaza. On Oct. 7, 2023, the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage, according to Israeli government figures. In response, Israel launched … Read More
March 18, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The tragedy of people suffering and dying alone is one of the enduring and unaddressed traumas of the pandemic. During early surges, we restricted visits to stop COVID from spreading. Yet even when the number of infections … Read More
March 17, 2025
(New York Times) – As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided. Others saved millions of lives. Perhaps the biggest lesson learned, several experts said, is that recommendations during any … Read More
March 14, 2025
(NPR) – Five years after the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and the Trump administration announced a national emergency, the United States faces a crucial shortage of medical providers, and one that is below its projected need for an … Read More
March 13, 2025
(New York Times) – People who endured the longest Covid restrictions in the world are still grappling with what they lost: their loved ones, their livelihoods, their dignity. Perhaps no country was as deeply reshaped by the pandemic as China, … Read More
March 13, 2025
(New York Times) – Covid-19 broke the charts. Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for Americans five years ago this … Read More
March 6, 2025
(New York Times) – A growing health libertarianism insists on bodily autonomy, out of anger about pandemic mitigation and faith that personal behavior can ward off infection and death. And the greatest social and technological experiment of our time, artificial … Read More
March 5, 2025
(New York Times) – Health providers in Sudan have recorded 221 cases of rape since the start of 2024, according to the UNICEF report. Among the victims, 147 were girls and 74 were boys. Sixteen children were younger than 5 … Read More
March 4, 2025
(The Guardian) – A slow convoy of a dozen ambulances and buses brought 25 wounded and sick Palestinian children from Gaza and across Israel on Tuesday, past the heavily armed forces that bombarded the territory for 15 months, and that … Read More
March 3, 2025
(BBC) – More than 500 mpox patients have fled clinics in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the last month amid the current conflict. Officials at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), a leading health agency on … Read More
February 27, 2025
(The Guardian) – Senior doctors and surgeons describe the torture, starvation, humiliation and denial of medical care they endured while being held without charge Many days I was tied to a chair in the interrogation room for maybe 15 hours. … Read More
February 26, 2025
(ABC News) – Audience disinterest has characterized many, though not all, of the films about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the output has pretty much dried up over the years. “My Dead Friend Zoe” feels like it was made … Read More
February 26, 2025
(Science) – Barred from the country, researchers try to monitor death and destruction from afar The lab, part of Yale’s School of Public Health, is one of several groups gauging the devastation caused by the brutal civil war in Sudan. … Read More
February 14, 2025
(Associated Press) – Haiti’s main public hospital, which remains shuttered after multiple gang attacks, was set on fire Thursday in the latest blow to one the country’s largest health institutions. The hospital’s general director, Dr. Prince Sonson Pierre, confirmed the fire … Read More
February 6, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – When wildfires reached Altadena, evacuation alerts came hours too late for some people who lived on the west side of the community The Eaton fire burned 14,021 acres, upending lives, destroying property and forcing thousands to … Read More
January 21, 2025
(KFF Health News) – That evening, the 49-year-old volunteered for a 14-hour shift at the city’s evacuation center, as did colleagues who had also been activated for emergency medical duty. Running on adrenaline and little sleep after finding shelter for … Read More
January 16, 2025
(Christianity Today) – Even as wildfires burn neighborhoods nearby, destroying the homes of some faculty and students, Pepperdine University is starting its spring semester by helping local firefighters in Los Angeles. With firefighters in the area facing water shortages, the … Read More
January 15, 2025
(Wired) – Melted plastic pipes and drastic water-pressure drops are potentially leaching toxic chemicals and contaminants into local supplies. Multiple water authorities in north Los Angeles have issued Do Not Drink notices. In the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires, … Read More
January 10, 2025
(KFF Health News) – The rapidly spreading wildfires that have transformed much of Los Angeles County into a raging hellscape are not only upending the lives of tens of thousands of residents and business owners, but also stressing the region’s … Read More
January 10, 2025
(ABC News) – Several hospitals and health care facilities have closed their clinics and offices in the southern California area as the devastating wildfires continue to spread. As of Thursday, at least five people have died, and thousands of structures … Read More
January 9, 2025
(NPR) – Air quality in the Los Angeles region has plummeted because of smoke from several wildfires burning in the surrounding hills. Exposure to wildfire smoke is a growing health problem across the country, as human-caused climate change increases the … Read More
January 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Rescuers rushed to distribute blankets and tents to those displaced by the magnitude-7.1 quake that struck Tibetan villages near Nepal, toppling over 3,000 homes. Rescuers working in subzero conditions and bracing winds searched the rubble on … Read More
January 8, 2025
(NPR) – “We woke up from bombs being dropped on the military base two blocks away [from our home],” says Ali, adding that his medical school and many hospitals were also bombed. “I had to flee my home.” For over … Read More
January 3, 2025
(New York Times) – The takeaway from these and similar parables is clear, Dr. Sharfstein says: Crisis can be a powerful catalyst for shaping policy and improving society. But just like any such tool, it can be misused as easily … Read More
December 31, 2024
(Undark) – The CDC is piloting a disease forecasting service called Insight Net. Could it be a game-changer for public health? Can we predict the ebb and flow of infectious disease the way meteorologists predict the weather? The federal government … Read More
