Gender-affirming care is important for optimising HIV outcomes among trans people. Our results underscore the vital role of gender-affirming models of care and access to gender-affirming hormone thera...

More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their choice are complicated.

Those affected by the president’s action on Monday are still subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Three men will remain on federal death row.

An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.

Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.

In Louisa, an unbearable social crisis has become the main source of economic opportunity.

Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services launched the Nest in August 2023, the first guaranteed basic income program in the US specifically serving Native communities.

The deep ocean is a vast reservoir of new species to science, and each discovery improves our ecological understanding of these remote ecosystems. One island-like ecosystem is the Atacama Trench (S...

Background More than half of the current US population was exposed to adverse lead levels in childhood as a result of lead's past use in gasoline. The total contribution of childhood lead exposures ...

JWST Validates HST Distance Measurements: Selection of Supernova Subsample Explains Differences in JWST Estimates of Local H 0 , Adam G. Riess, Dan Scolnic, Gagandeep S. Anand, Louise Breuval, Stefano Casertano, Lucas M. Macri, Siyang Li, Wenlong Yuan, Caroline D. Huang, Saurabh Jha, Yukei S. Murakami, Rachael Beaton, Dillon Brout, Tianrui Wu, Graeme E. Addison, Charles Bennett, Richard I. Anderson, Alexei V. Filippenko, Anthony Carr

More than 75 laureates have written an open letter describing Mr. Kennedy’s selection for H.H.S. secretary as detrimental to public health.

Acadia Healthcare falsifies records at its methadone clinics and enrolls patients who aren’t addicted to opioids, a Times investigation found.

LA County Library announces that Library Naloxone Clinics are now offering free fentanyl test strips.

Taxpayers paid for their care at the VA—and for Medicare Advantage coverage that many didn’t use. ‘I don’t think I’ve used my Medicare in years,’ said one Air Force veteran.

Benralizumab can be used as a treatment of acute eosinophilic exacerbations and achieves better outcomes than the current standard of care with prednisolone alone. These results offer a new way of tre...

Medical care can be wearying and time-consuming, especially for seniors. Researchers are beginning to quantify the burdens.

An independent Stanford research detected bird flu virus in a retail sample of Fresno-based Raw Farm milk.

White flour may be directly electrospun, providing a starch nanofiber alternative which avoids unnecessary industrial extraction and purification. By dissolving 17 wt% flour in warm formic acid and co...

The Bard College Board of Trustees and the Bard College at Simon’s Rock Board of Overseers today jointly announced that Simon’s Rock will be relocating from its Great Barrington, MA, campus to a new c...

Ticks are the number one vector of pathogens for livestock worldwide and for humans in the United States. The biology of tick transmission is an understudied area. Understanding this critical interact...

A federal judge in Texas ruled on Tuesday that the state's new law limiting public drag performances was an unconstitutional restriction on speech and he permanently forbid enforcement of it.

Nature - Distinguishing features of Long COVID identified through immune profiling

A Nebraska mother who pleaded guilty to giving her teenage daughter pills for an abortion and helping to burn and conceal the fetus has been sentenced to two years in prison.

It is increasingly clear to researchers that inflammation can raise the risk of a heart attack. Now doctors have a drug that addresses that risk.

The escalating campaign — led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans — has cast a pall over programs that study not just political disinformation but also the quality of medical informa...

The first patient to receive such an organ died after two months. “At least now I have hope,” the second recipient said before the surgery.

We present an overview of the thermal history of the Universe and the sequence of objects (e.g., protons, planets, and galaxies) that condensed out of the backg

Virginia Beach high schoolers have spoken at every school board meeting for a year, begging members to protect their LGBTQ peers.

For Marcos Cux — and thousands of other migrant children — working dangerous jobs that violate child-labor laws is the only American dream there is.

The Biden administration is restarting a program to provide free rapid tests through the mail.

Smoke from wildland fires has been shown to produce neuroinflammation in preclinical models, characterized by neural infiltrations of neutrophils and monocytes, as well as altered neurovascular endoth...

The move came as a surprise: In May, an FDA advisory committee voted to recommend approval of the drug for children and adults.

US regulators will consider clinical trials of a system that mimics the womb, which could reduce deaths and disability for babies born extremely preterm. US regulators will consider clinical trials of...

Switching from working onsite to working from home full time may reduce a person’s carbon footprint by more than 50 percent, according to a new study.

Pritzker Molecular Engineering researchers led by Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell showed that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune reaction associated with multiple sclerosis in a laboratory setting.

Established antigen-specific T-cell responses can be suppressed by conjugating the antigen to a glycosylated polymer, as shown in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis and with the suppression of respon...

Study in Italy’s worst pandemic hot spot sheds light on why some people fell seriously ill and others didn’t

Human genetic studies implicate PLCG2 variants in Alzheimer’s disease risk, but the mechanism is unclear. Tsai et al. identify a PLCG2 loss-of-function variant that confers increased AD risk and de...

California lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill known as the Delete Act that would allow consumers, with a single request, to have every data broker delete their personal information.

This observational study paired with National Health Service (NHS) workforce population data examined gender differences in surgical workforce members’ experien