March 10, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Despite a child’s death, residents say personal choice—not public-health policy—should guide their decisions Gaines County exemplifies pockets of America where antivaccine sentiment has surged, fueled by deepening distrust in the U.S. government after the pandemic. With … Read More
March 7, 2025
(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to … Read More
March 7, 2025
(Toronto Star) – Canadians need to make sure they’re vaccinated against measles, especially before travelling over March break, said Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer in a statement Thursday. “As we move through spring break travel season, I am … Read More
March 7, 2025
(USA Today) – Myrick, a 38-year-old family medicine and obstetrics physician in the tiny town of Seminole, looked back to medical texts to learn more about the disease, once thought to be nearing eradication in the U.S. Now, she’s treated … Read More
March 6, 2025
(Axios) – LGBTQ+ youth across the U.S. continue to experience high rates of mental health challenges — yet they face significant hurdles to accessing mental health care, according to a new report from the Trevor Project. (Read More)
March 6, 2025
(Associated Press) – Utah on Wednesday became the first state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify users’ ages and get parental consent for minors to download apps to their devices. The bill headed to the desk of Gov. … Read More
March 5, 2025
(ABC News) – A bucktoothed llama that spends his days comforting chronically ill children at a North Carolina camp founded by NASCAR royalty has been crowned the world’s oldest llama in captivity. At 27 years and more than 250 days, … Read More
March 5, 2025
(CBS News) – A dozen children became ill after ingesting marijuana gummies at a New York middle school. The students, ages 12 to 13, started vomiting after taking the edibles Monday morning at William Floyd Middle School in Moriches. A … Read More
March 4, 2025
(NBC News) – Anxious parents are begging for early vaccinations while others are refusing the shot. Many holdouts are unfazed by the deadly measles outbreak in Texas. As virus cases rise and the U.S. recorded its first measles death in … 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 4, 2025
(USA Today) – As the measles outbreak continues to spread in Texas, cases have been reported in New Jersey as well as a second case in New York City. The New York City Department of Health said that one additional … Read More
March 3, 2025
(Wired) – A Texas health authority is warning against “measles parties” as the outbreak in West Texas grew to at least 146 cases, with 20 hospitalized and one unvaccinated school-age child dead. The outbreak continues to be mainly in unvaccinated … Read More
February 26, 2025
(Associated Press) – A child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious respiratory disease since 2015. The school-aged child had been hospitalized and … Read More
February 21, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretched, pausing other important work as they race to limit the spread of this highly contagious … Read More
February 21, 2025
(BBC) – An experimental trial of gene therapy has helped four toddlers – born with one of the most severe forms of childhood blindness – gain “life-changing improvements” to their sight, according to doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. … Read More
February 21, 2025
(The Hill) – New York is suing some of the largest vape distributors for allegedly fueling the country’s youth vaping epidemic. New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the lawsuit against 13 major e-cigarette manufacturers, distributors and retailers for illegally … Read More
February 20, 2025
(Nature) – The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated … Read More
February 18, 2025
(JAMA) – In this issue of JAMA, 2 articles characterize the impact of recent state abortion restrictions. Applying observational causal inference methods, the authors estimate a 1.7% increase in birth rates from abortion restrictions in affected states (corresponding to about 22 000 excess … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Associated Press) – The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years. State health officials said Friday in a news release that those who … Read More
February 13, 2025
(The Verge) – Google will soon use machine learning to estimate the age of its users. In an update on Wednesday, Google said it’s testing a machine learning model in the US to help determine whether someone is under 18, allowing … Read More
February 12, 2025
(CBS News) – The U.S. confirmed at least a dozen deaths from whooping cough last year, according to preliminary figures released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That marks the most fatalities from the bacterial infection … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Ars Technica) – An outbreak of measles in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties continues to rapidly expand, with officials reporting 24 cases Tuesday, up from just nine confirmed on Friday. According to an update by the Texas Department of State Health Services … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Cincinnati Enquirer) – An Indiana family says Cincinnati Children’s won’t put their 12-year-old daughter on its heart transplant waiting list because of her vaccination status. Janeen Deal, who is related by marriage to Vice President JD Vance’s half-siblings, said the hospital requires her daughter … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Minnesota Star Tribune) – The trial involves a peptide developed by Minneapolis-based biotech startup OX2 Therapeutics. Children’s Minnesota is testing the safety of a new vaccine combination to combat one of the deadliest pediatric cancers, which could give new hope … Read More
February 12, 2025
(The Walrus) – Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted I was born missing an ear. What followed was years of well-intentioned violence from a medical system bent on solving the “problem” of my body. … Read More
