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
August 8, 2025
(AP) – Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the only countries where transmission of polio — which is highly infectious, affects mainly children under 5, and can cause irreversible paralysis within hours — has never been interrupted. The worldwide campaign has focused … Read More
August 8, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 6, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 5, 2025
(New York Times) – In unpublished research, researchers found live virus on equipment, in wastewater and in the air in so-called milking parlors. The Department of Agriculture has said that the virus spreads primarily from milking equipment or is carried … Read More
August 5, 2025
(CBS News) – As more people aged 45-49 are getting screened for colon cancer, more early stage diagnoses are being made, according to new research from the American Cancer Society. The research, published in two studies Monday in the Journal of … Read More
August 4, 2025
(BBC) – Gonorrhoea vaccines will be widely available from Monday in sexual health clinics across the UK, in a bid to tackle record-breaking levels of infections. The jabs will first be offered to those at highest risk – mostly gay … Read More
August 4, 2025
(CBS News) – Plastic pollution is a “grave, growing and under-recognized danger” to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, a report published Monday in the Lancet medical journal said. The new review of existing … Read More
August 1, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 31, 2025
(NBC News) – The tiny scraps of plastic were found in the olfactory bulb, the part of the brain responsible for processing smell. Scientists in Brazil found microplastics in the brain tissue of cadavers, according to a new study published Monday … Read More
July 30, 2025
(NBC News) – Acute necrotizing encephalopathy is deadly in more than a quarter of kids diagnosed with the inflammatory brain disease. Severe flu seasons in recent years have brought to light a little-known danger of influenza infections in kids: a … Read More
July 30, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Ultrapotent nitazenes, mostly from China, are easy to smuggle and mix into heroin, recreational drugs and gray-market pharmaceuticals Fentanyl fueled the worst drug crisis the West has ever seen. Now, an even more dangerous drug is … Read More
July 28, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – If humanity’s existence were threatened by plague, nuclear war or environmental catastrophe, people would surely demand action. But what if the threat came from our own, passive acceptance of decline? This is not some theoretical curiosity: … Read More
