August 25, 2026
(NYT) – Five decades after the “war on drugs” sought to make substance abuse unaffordable, illicit drugs are cheaper and more powerful than ever. A visit to Baltimore shows why. Because lab-made drugs are so easily mixed and altered, their … Read More
August 21, 2026
(BBC) – Some of the most prescribed medications, including those used to treat depression, ADHD and high blood pressure, can increase the risk of dehydration and other heat-related conditions. Many types of drugs used to treat mental health conditions, including … Read More
August 20, 2026
(Wired) – From granola to guacamole, a wide variety of foods have been recalled lately over salmonella risks. Experts say common-sense precautions go a long way. Just as the US’s explosive diarrhea situation is starting to improve, there seem to … Read More
August 20, 2026
(Science) – New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities Black people in the U.S. are already well-known to have a lower life expectancy at birth than white people, but the … Read More
August 19, 2026
(Wired) – People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet. The root cause of these deaths isn’t just the stigma, social isolation, and lack of decent housing that often accompany life with schizophrenia; nor is … Read More
August 18, 2026
(NYT) – A June heat wave in Belgium and neighboring countries exposed a lethal lack of readiness. That’s a risk as another wave hits Europe. Seniors died in stifling apartments. Emergency calls were left on hold. Doctors treated an onslaught … Read More
August 12, 2026
(NYT) – Traditionally, we have sorted diseases into categories, separating contagious from noncontagious illnesses; acute events like strokes from chronic conditions like asthma; diseases of cell proliferation, like cancer, from diseases of cell death, like Alzheimer’s; and those that affect … Read More
August 12, 2026
(Nature) – US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun turning away research grant applications for which the “primary function” is informing policymakers and … Read More
August 11, 2026
(WSJ) – It is unusual, if not unprecedented, for detailed vaccine policy to emerge from the White House President Trump signed a new executive order Monday calling for most children to receive fewer vaccines and made some of his most … Read More
August 11, 2026
(Fox News) – Vibrio vulnificus can cause necrotizing fasciitis and kills about one in five people infected, experts say A potentially deadly “flesh-eating” bacteria has killed five people in Louisiana this year, a sharp rise from the state’s typical death … Read More
August 10, 2026
(NYT) – Almost every doctor has a tragic story that sticks with them. For Dr. Suchitra Rao, a pediatrician in Colorado, it was a teenager with a congenital heart defect and a weakened immune system who got a flu vaccine … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – The federal government is ending its contract with a Kentucky nonprofit that it says pressured medical workers to remove organs from patients who were getting better. The federal government is firing the nonprofit group that coordinates organ donations … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Science) – Trial failed of supposedly potent antibodies that the leading vaccine candidates aim to trigger Rio de Janeiro—Powerful anti-HIV drugs took another step forward at the 26th International AIDS Conference, held here last week. Among the most exciting findings … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses. Synthesizing viruses from scratch is hardly new. Researchers long ago learned … Read More
August 6, 2026
(NBC News) – The CDC’s planned update marks a significant expansion in the outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms. The outbreak, caused by a microscopic parasite found in human feces, is responsible for hundreds of hospitalizations … Read More
August 5, 2026
(NYT) – The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk. An invasive, malaria-carrying, insecticide-resistant mosquito that thrives in cities, where malaria has not been a major threat, has moved farther … Read More
August 4, 2026
(WSJ) – Newly released emails suggest Taco Bell’s parent company was communicating with health authorities weeks before lettuce recall Two people have died in connection with the cyclosporiasis outbreak that has spread across the U.S. this summer, according to public-health … Read More
July 30, 2026
(NYT) – Americans are more focused on mental health today than at any other point in our history. Public health campaigns urge us to check in on our feelings and talk openly about our struggles. Schools have adopted mental health … Read More
July 29, 2026
(Axios) – The U.S. blood supply has reached crisis levels, prompting the American Red Cross and the Surgeon General’s Office to urge people to donate. Why it matters: A prolonged blood shortage could delay surgeries, trauma care and other treatments … Read More
July 28, 2026
(WSJ) – President is focused on shots’ alleged tie to autism, even though White House advisers wanted to tone down attention to issue ahead of midterms At a May lunch at the president’s golf course in northern Virginia, President Trump … Read More
July 28, 2026
(WSJ) – AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries After OpenAI enhanced the brain power of its chatbot last summer, hundreds of users worldwide began … Read More
July 27, 2026
(Wired) – Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease. This isn’t just a … Read More
July 24, 2026
(Science) – Pioneering studies are underway to address massive outbreak of rare Bundibugyo virus in the Congo Those grim statistics also mean the outbreak is a chance for scientists to learn more about Bundibugyo, the rare Ebola species responsible, and … Read More
July 24, 2026
(NYT) – During the Covid-19 pandemic, wastewater testing became a virus warning system. Now, scientists are using the approach to understand how communities eat. Using wastewater in North Carolina, researchers searched for traces of food DNA that had survived digestion. … Read More
July 23, 2026
(Axios) – The U.S. measles case count for this year has surged past last year’s total and now stands at 2,295 — a level that hasn’t been seen in 35 years, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker that compiles … Read More
