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TPG/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Five years ago, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic, leading to stay at-home orders and shutdowns across the U.S. and world. The nation looks much [Read More…]

Jessica McGowan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a survey on March 6 asking some federally funded researchers to assess how their work aligns with the priorities of President Donald [Read More…]

Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (GAINES COUNTY, Texas) — The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 198, with 40 cases reported over the last [Read More…]

Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images (TEXAS) — The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 — an increase of 13 cases in the past five days, authorities said [Read More…]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said in a [Read More…]

Measles virus particle, illustration. (Photo by KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Via Getty) (NEW YORK) — Measles has been spreading across the U.S. for the last several weeks, sickening people in at least nine states amid a [Read More…]

Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images (GAINES COUNTY, Texas) — The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 146, according to new data released Friday. Almost all of the [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In his first public comments on the measles outbreak hitting West Texas and New Mexico, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic [Read More…]

Natalya Maisheva via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Before there was a vaccine in 1963, measles infected millions and killed hundreds of people in the U.S. every year. Now, with the first measles death occurring [Read More…]

A general view of the World Health Organization (WHO) on April 28, 2009, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Harold Cunningham/Getty Images) (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) — At least 60 people have died and over 1,000 more have [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Some major medical associations are pushing back against the Department of Health and Human Services’ updated definitions of biological sex in federal policy in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive [Read More…]

Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More measles cases are being confirmed across the United States as health officials work to treat patients in an ongoing outbreak in Texas. The Kentucky Department for [Read More…]

Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Longer periods of extreme heat has been found to accelerate biological age in older adults by up to two years, according to new research. More heat days [Read More…]

BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (LUBBOCK, Texas) — An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak in the western part of the state that has infected more than [Read More…]

BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (LUBBOCK, Texas) — An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak in the western part of the state that has infected more than [Read More…]

A general view of the World Health Organization (WHO) on April 28, 2009, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Harold Cunningham/Getty Images) (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) — The World Health Organization has reported that there is a deadly [Read More…]

Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday that the new coronavirus found in bats is currently not a cause for concern. There is [Read More…]

(PonyWang/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Flu activity remains “elevated” in the United States but is starting to show signs of abating, according to new federal data published Friday. The 2024-25 flu season was classified by [Read More…]

BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The number of measles cases linked to an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 90, according to new data released on Friday. Almost all of [Read More…]

ER Productions Limited/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A personalized mRNA vaccine may reduce the risks of pancreatic cancer returning after surgery, according to a preliminary study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Pancreatic cancer is [Read More…]