The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

Migrants crossing the Central Mediterranean sea route travel in overcrowded vessels, where fuel may leak and contaminate seawater accumulating on the vessel floor, resulting in prolonged dermal exp...

Tuberculosis (TB) kills more people every year than any other infectious disease.1 It is also associated with suffering, catastrophic personal and family c

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Witnesses in Bangkok more than 1,000km away said people ran out onto the streets in panic An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 has struck Myanmar, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, causing hundreds of people to pour out of swaying buildings in Bangkok, the capital of neighbouring Thailand 1,400km away. USGS said the quake on Friday was shallow, at a depth of just 10km (six miles) with the epicentre near the central city of Mandalay, about 50km (30 miles) east of the city of Monywa. Continue reading...

President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.

Just over a month after US President Donald Trump implemented a 90-day freeze of all foreign assistance, the future looks very uncertain for tuberculosis research. Among others, a large TB research pr...

Background Population-wide screening may accelerate the decline of tuberculosis (TB) incidence, but the optimal screening algorithm and duration must weigh resource considerations. Methods We calibra...