As Measles Spreads, Some Doctors See the Virus for the First Time
Until this year, Dr. Leila Myrick had never seen a case of measles.She doesn’t remember professors in medical school talking ...
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Why Measles Outbreaks May Be the New Normal
As the Trump administration moves to dismantle international public health safeguards, pull funding from local health departments and legitimize health ...
A Federal Lab That Tracked Rising S.T.I.s Has Been Shuttered
Drug-resistant gonorrhea, a form of the widespread sexually transmitted infection, is considered an urgent health threat worldwide. The United States ...
Trump Administration Demands Additional Cuts at C.D.C.
Alongside extensive reductions to the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Trump administration has asked the ...
C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say
The extensive layoffs of federal health workers that began on Tuesday will greatly curtail the scope and influence of the ...
Shingles Vaccine Can Decrease Risk of Dementia, Study Finds
Getting vaccinated against shingles can reduce the risk of developing dementia, a large new study finds.The results provide some of ...
For John Green, It’s Tuberculosis All the Way Down
Nolen: The first TB patient that I sat down with in Nairobi was a man who had extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, ...
Measles Cases in Kansas May Be Linked to Texas Outbreak
Measles cases in Kansas more than doubled in the last week, bringing the tally to 20, while another outbreak in ...
H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics
The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens ...
For Some Measles Patients, Vitamin A Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Them More Ill
Doctors in West Texas are seeing measles patients whose illnesses have been complicated by an alternative therapy endorsed by vaccine ...
Kennedy Instructs Anti-Vaccine Group to Remove Fake C.D.C. Page
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, on Saturday instructed leaders of the nonprofit he founded to take down ...
Texas Measles Outbreak May Continue for a Year, Officials Say
As containment efforts falter, the measles outbreak in West Texas is likely to persist for a year, perhaps even setting ...
RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. ...
Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments
Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on ...
Science Amid Chaos: What Worked During the Pandemic? What Failed?
Until 2020, few Americans needed to think about how viruses spread or how the human immune system works. The pandemic ...
Measles Can Damage the Immune System for Years
As more measles cases emerge around the country, doctors say they’re concerned that those infected may be at risk of ...
Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health
In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the ...
As Measles Continues to Spread in Texas, Cases Jump in New Mexico
A raging measles outbreak in West Texas, which has so far killed one child, has not abated and may have ...
How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks
Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other ...
Unvaccinated New Mexico Resident Dies of Suspected Measles
An unvaccinated person who died in New Mexico has tested positive for measles, state health officials said on Thursday, possibly ...
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