This week’s Poet’s Corner contribution comes from Kathryn von Bergen.

Misleading and False Vaccine Claims from the MAHA Report “Since 1986 the average child, by one year of age, has gone from 3 injections to 29.” Overall, the vaccine schedule has expanded by 1-2 vaccin...

Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat coronaviruses that circulated as...

Measles may become endemic again within 20 years if vaccination rates don’t improve, according to new modelling.

STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.

Our energy system is evolving at breakneck speed. Here we look at how our power grid works, what more renewables mean for energy prices, how nuclear fits into the picture, and how we might build a gri...

Background Because mass gatherings create environments conducive for infectious disease transmission, public health officials may recommend postponing or canceling large gatherings during a moderate o...

US president Donald Trump has repeatedly taken aim at Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programmes in the US, especially in government offices, claiming that they were discriminatory.

The 2005 paper repeats the phrase “Get me off your fucking mailing list” for ten pages. The authors are still on the mailing list.

Why do so many fools end up in positions of authority?

“Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary," federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week.

A new stadium will be built in Brisbane as the centrepiece of the 2032 Olympic Games, Premier David Crisafulli has revealed.

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...

Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Prion disease is caused by misfolding of the prion protein (PrP) into pathogenic self-propagating conformations, leading to rapid-onset dementia and death. However, elimination of endogenous PrP halts...

Donald Trump says he wants the US to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere.

FBI staff have been told to answer questions about their work on criminal cases related to the attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters.

Shrug, move on and never admit you were wrong

In 2021, a year before ChatGPT took the world by storm amid the excitement about generative artificial intelligence (AI), AlphaFold 2 cracked the 50-year-old protein-folding problem, predicting three-...

While all the focus during US President Donald Trump's inauguration was on tariffs, the sight of four tech titans at the ceremony should have put another economic policy on the radar: Tax.

The announcement by US President Donald Trump that the USA will withdraw from WHO1 will leave both a large financial gap and a political power vacuum in global health. The disruption endangers human l...

On May 29, 2020, President Donald Trump announced the USA would sever its relationship with WHO and redirect funds to US global health priorities.1 On July 6, 2020, the US administration officially no...