A Preventable Crisis Turns Fatal Pennsylvania has now recorded four measles-associated deaths in 2025 — the first in the state in 35 years — as a growing outbreak spreads across 38 counties and federal health officials actively undermine the public…
A new book makes the case that the world’s bogs and fens may be the most consequential ecosystems most people have never thought about. Long before the first environmental protection law was written, peatlands were doing the slow, unglamorous work…
A Four-Year Slide With Serious Consequences Vaccination rates among American kindergartners fell during the 2025–2026 school year across every vaccine the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracks, the agency confirmed on Monday — and the numbers tell a story…
For Caulette Djakonow, the pile of illegally dumped trash that accumulated outside her Dayton Street home in Detroit was never just an eyesore. Djakonow has stage four lung cancer, and the mounting heap of waste in front of a nearby…
What has actually happened here? Nearly 19 million eggs — roughly 1.5 million dozen — are now at the center of a significant food safety crisis after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration elevated their recall to a Class I…
Across the United States, children are being seriously injured and killed on e-bikes and electrified two-wheelers at a rate that researchers describe as a genuine public health crisis — one that a fragmented, state-by-state regulatory landscape is failing to contain.…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced over the weekend that she has begun freezing her eggs — and in doing so, she put a spotlight on a reproductive healthcare gap that affects millions of American women. The procedure costs upward of $10,000, her…
Inside the cardiology wards of major hospitals, physicians managing patients with both type 2 diabetes and heart disease have long faced an uncomfortable arithmetic: treat the blood sugar, and you may do little to address the cardiovascular catastrophe quietly building…
When Peter Foukal published his letter in the Boston Globe arguing that the scientific community had “brought Trump’s funding threat on itself” by straying from pure research into what he called “advancing a social agenda,” he articulated a view that…
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo is once again amplifying health misinformation — this time invoking a long-debunked anti-vaccine claim to explain a measles outbreak linked to a Catholic university in his state. His remarks, made at a press conference last…