California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

Once-daily, single-tablet regimens have transformed care for persons living with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1); however, challenges to adherence continue to limit effective treatment....

In 2024 the Taliban banned women from training as doctors or any other kind of healthcare worker. But an underground network of trainers is keeping hopes alive for Afghanistan’s aspiring female medics...

Fiji’s rapidly growing epidemic is a warning about what happens when complacency, vulnerability and retreating resources give the virus an opening

Ethicists are wary of an HHS proposal to loosen rules for “low-risk research”

The objections prevented UN member states from endorsing a political declaration that aims for better international coordination.

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Government estimates that one in 60 adults in Fiji now living with HIV, as escalating use of methamphetamine fuels ‘epidemic’

By Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University

Two that are promising, and one that is difficult to talk about

Mutumbi, Democratic Republic of the Congo—For more than 24 hours, a safe and dignified burial of an Ebola case was delayed in Mutumbi, 25 kilometres outside Bunia, in Ituri province, northeastern Demo...

A cure changed one child's life. Prevention could change millions more.

A vaccine-advocates in a cult?

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

A 40-year-old woman who lived in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, has died from measles complications, the county coroner confirmed Sunday. It’s the third measles-associated death in a fast-growing out...

Bangladesh, which once came close to eliminating measles, is facing its worst outbreak on record, with 999 suspected and confirmed measles-related deaths reported since March as hospitals struggle wit...

The WHO says multiple-dose vials will make it easier and less expensive to immunize pregnant women in low-income countries.

Drawing lessons from Sierra Leone and having watched the mid-2026 outbreak in the DRC, I conclude that it risks become a global epidemic.

Science communication offers immense value for fostering public trust and enhancing the quality of our modern information ecosystem. However, it remai…

Nirmatrelvir–ritonavir for 15 days or 25 days showed no evidence of benefit in long COVID in any of the three phenotypes studied. These findings suggest additional approaches to measuring the symptom ...

Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition.

The percentage of parents and caregivers in the United States refusing a standard vitamin K shot for infants at birth has accelerated sharply this year, an ​exclusive data analysis for Reuters found, ...

While training in medicine I was still a literary lecturer and novelist and, on a break between medical school placements, was asked to do a lecture tour of bookshops and colleges with an older writer...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.

The public health emergencies in 2022 and 2024 saw the virus reported in 145 countries, but in the new cases children appear particularly affected

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A natural experiment comparing recipients of the live attenuated versus recombinant herpes zoster vaccines found that the recombinant vaccine was associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular ev...

The cause of the infections is believed to be a mosquito that travelled by plane from a malaria-endemic area to Germany, likely in July. #EuropeNews

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.

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Kinshasa—One hundred days have passed since the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared the ongoing Ebola outbreak, which has now become the country's fastest growing. Transmission is outpacing cont...

This report describes cases of monkeypox virus infection reported during 2024–2025.

The discovery of the Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK/STAT) pathway as a key regulator of immune function and inflammation ...