September 3, 2025
(Wired) – Researchers are working on manipulating the digestive systems of wax worms to create a scalable way of disposing of plastic. The larvae of wax moths, commonly known as wax worms, have the ability to break down polyethylene in … Read More
September 2, 2025
(AP) – A New York City hospital and another city-run building were sources for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Harlem that killed seven people and sickened dozens of others, health officials announced Friday. The New York City Health … Read More
September 1, 2025
(New York Times) – Patients are flooding medical practices with reports of the telltale signs of Covid and questions about whether they will be able to get vaccinated. Patients are inundating some New York City medical practices with messages that … Read More
September 1, 2025
(ABC News) – New York City health officials have discovered a seventh death linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem, where more than 100 people have been diagnosed with the ailment. The latest death was announced Thursday. Officials … Read More
August 29, 2025
(AP) – New York City health officials said Friday that bacteria from two city-run buildings, including a hospital, matched samples from some patients in a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem that has killed seven people and sickened dozens of … Read More
August 29, 2025
(CBS News) – There have been 22 cases of Vibrio vulnificus infection in Louisiana residents, the state department of health said. All of the victims were hospitalized. Four people have died, the health department said. Two of the deaths were … Read More
August 28, 2025
(NBC News) – An escalating conflict over an influential vaccine committee was one of the final straws that led to the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez and the exodus of other highly regarded top … Read More
August 28, 2025
(CNN) – That small scratch on Lyons’ leg became the entryway for Vibrio vulnificus, also known as flesh-eating bacteria. Those black sores on his leg signified necrotizing fasciitis, which “affects the tissue under your skin,” according to the Cleveland Clinic. … Read More
August 27, 2025
(NPR) – The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines Wednesday, but imposed new restrictions on who’s eligible to get receive them. The agency is limiting the updated shots to people who are at risk for … Read More
August 27, 2025
(CNN) – A combination of a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet, exercise and nutritional support kept overweight to severely obese people between the ages of 55 and 75 from progressing to type 2 diabetes, a new study found. “Our study shows that … Read More
August 27, 2025
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August 22, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 5, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 21, 2025
(NPR) – As human-driven climate change makes winters shorter, ticks are spending less time hibernating and have more active months when they can hitch rides on animals and people. Sometimes the ticks carry themselves — and diseases — to new … Read More
August 21, 2025
(New York Times) – A small, preliminary study found that marathoners were much more likely to have precancerous growths. Experts aren’t sure why. By the time they came to see Dr. Timothy Cannon, all three had advanced colon cancer. He … Read More
August 19, 2025
(UPI) – Texas health officials have announced the end of a measles outbreak that sickened more than 750 people and killed two unvaccinated school-aged children in West Texas since January. The Texas Department of State Health Services announced the end … Read More
August 19, 2025
(The Hill) – An experimental cancer vaccine has shown promising results in keeping pancreatic and colorectal cancers from coming back. In a clinical trial led by the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, researchers tested … Read More
August 19, 2025
(CBS New York via MSN) – A fifth person has died from the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem, New York City’s health department said Monday. So far, there have been 108 confirmed cases of the potentially deadly form of pneumonia in Central … Read More
August 18, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Orilio is part of a new era of cancer treatment challenging the idea of what it means to have and survive cancer. A small but growing population is living longer with incurable or advanced cancer, navigating … Read More
August 15, 2025
(NPR) – Mpox made for scary headlines in 2022 and 2023: tens of thousands of cases worldwide, with 30,000 in the U.S. in just one year. There were reports of painful lesions and mammoth efforts to mobilize vaccines. In 2025, … Read More
August 13, 2025
(BBC) – The women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation. “Our children are dying before our eyes,” one of them tells the BBC. “We don’t know what to do. … Read More
August 13, 2025
(AP) – Fewer Americans are reporting that they drink alcohol amid a growing belief that even moderate alcohol consumption is a health risk, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. A record high percentage of U.S. adults, 53%, now say … Read More
August 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Science is a method for formulating and testing hypotheses, not a fixed set of facts. It should work alongside other ways of knowing, but it must also be protected from political or commercial capture. Perhaps I’m … Read More
August 11, 2025
(New York Times) – Employees expressed horror at a shooting at the agency’s headquarters, and some said they viewed it as part of a pattern of threats and assaults on health workers. The day after a lone gunman opened fire … Read More
August 8, 2025
(UnHerd) – What is most fascinating about Ozempic isn’t the weight loss. It’s the psychological revolution it has triggered. Something extraordinary is happening to people who’ve spent years, even decades, locked in a mental war with food. Again and again, … Read More
August 8, 2025
(NPR) – Health officials in Guangdong province in southern China are waging an all-out war against mosquitoes in response to an outbreak of the chikungunya virus that’s sickened thousands with fever, rashes and joint pain over the past month. Soldiers … Read More
