The driverless rides reflect Elon Musk’s push to turn the EV maker into an autonomous-vehicle giant.

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

AbstractIntroduction. Approximately 1.0 to 1.7 million women of reproductive age worldwide are estimated to have a Trypanosoma cruzi infection, and fewer t

Kinsley Rasmus had a historic day on the mound on Wednesday.

We describe a 6-month hospital Candidozyma auris outbreak that was successfully contained using massive rapid PCR screening and rigorous infection control

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AI can now read and edit DNA. That has tremendous upside, medically. But it also has enormous dangers, including deepfaked biological viruses.

In an upset, Luke Bronin, the former mayor of Hartford, won the Democratic nomination, capitalizing on calls for generational change.

Jackie, the bald eagle who became an internet sensation and a symbol of the species’ recovery in California, has died after being treated for an illness at a veterinary facility.

The decision caps a seven-month process that included a rare refusal to consider the shot.

Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR

In the 1990s, scientists in Australia began searching for the origins of a new disease showing up in places hundreds of kilometres apart. They discovered the origin: bats. And found a way to reduce th...

Alfred Drummond-Herdman’s extraordinary timelapses have been viewed by millions – and led him to identify new species

The amount is still far below what the U.S. spent previously on humanitarian and health aid, but resumes the flow of money for key efforts to fight malnutrition and disease.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has an unparalleled record of advancing biomedical science. Today, two critical challenges threaten its future impa

Soccer chief Gianni Infantino reversed course mere days after the world learned of his proposal. The sport’s governing body for Europe hinted strongly that he should resign.

SSTIs, which were often polymicrobial, comprised most IDU-associated infections among inpatients with OUD hospitalized in an urban Texas hospital. Individuals with IDU-associated infections had increa...

Since May, more than 11,000 cases of illness caused by the parasite cyclospora have been reported in 41 states. This comes after the Trump administration drastically cut FDA and CDC staff, prompting o...

When the No Surprises Act took effect in 2022, it was a rare feat of bipartisan problem-solving. The law was meant to prevent a once all-too-common scenario: An insured patient would seek emergency ca...

More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.

AbstractIntroduction. The impact of Chagas disease in the United States military is unknown. While previous studies have suggested a low number of cases, c

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

Takeda Pharmaceutical's dengue vaccine Qdenga has been approved by India's drug regulator, making it the first such vaccine to be cleared in the country, the Japanese drugmaker's ​India unit said on M...

Taylor Farms said it had recalled iceberg lettuce grown and processed in central Mexico “in an abundance of caution.”

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

From Seattle’s first COVID-19 signals to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), Dr. Helen Chu, University of Washington Professor of Medicine, shares a front-line perspective o...

Thousands of people have been sickened across five states.

The new service will let traders and investors pay for real-time feed of Truth Social posts.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a new effort to annually screen service members’ testosterone levels and offer testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), framing it as a way to keep...

Officials say climate crisis ‘worsening our exposure’ to bacteria as at least 28 people sickened in Manhattan