A Policy Change With Real Human Costs For years, a pain physician’s patient lived with chronic pelvic pain she described as a hot poker. A targeted nerve block eliminated that pain entirely. Through tears, the patient said she had forgotten…
What did scientists actually find, and why does it matter? A landmark long-term study from Germany has uncovered something that challenges a widely held assumption in climate science: certain forest soils are not merely passive bystanders in the methane cycle…
A measles exposure warning issued by the Alabama Department of Public Health this week is not an isolated scare — it is a local symptom of a national public health failure. The central fact is this: measles, a disease that…
When the Supreme Court stripped away the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022, Betsy Pleasants was already deep in research on how the Covid-19 pandemic had disrupted abortion access. She pivoted fast — and what she built in response…
A Check in the Mail, Just Before Election Day The direct deposit notification will land in roughly 20.8 million bank accounts this week — $90, deposited automatically, no application required. For a Medicare enrollee managing rising grocery bills, surging energy…
A disease that the United States had effectively eliminated a quarter century ago is back, spreading through under-vaccinated communities with a ferocity that has now forced New York Governor Kathy Hochul to declare a statewide disaster emergency. The declaration, the…
A Public Health Crisis Decades in the Making Pennsylvania has officially crossed a grim threshold. State health officials confirmed Monday that the number of measles cases in the commonwealth has surpassed 1,000 in 2026, making it the largest state-level outbreak…
A Massachusetts man says Ozempic took his sight — and he’s far from alone in making that claim in court. Edward Gillen, a father of four and longtime state highway worker from Dedham, has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that…
On September 13, a traveler carrying measles moved through Philadelphia International Airport over nearly five hours, passing between terminals and leaving behind a trail of potential exposures. Six days later, the city’s health department issued a warning. The warning named…
For most Americans, October 1 passes unremarkably. But for the roughly five million Californians who rely on federal food assistance, housing vouchers, veterans’ benefits, Medicare-funded care, or are navigating the labyrinthine college financial aid system, the date carries genuine weight.…