Flesh-Eating Screwworm Returns to U.S. Soil: Four Cases Confirmed as USDA Scrambles to Contain Outbreak The New World screwworm — a parasitic fly whose larvae burrow into the living flesh of warm-blooded animals — has returned to the United States…
Record Losses, Fewer Flames: The Dangerous New Logic of Wildfire Risk Despite burning less land than almost any year since 2002, 2025 became the deadliest and most expensive wildfire season in recorded history — a paradox that scientists say reveals…
Trump Orders CDC to Cut Childhood Vaccine Recommendations, Defying Medical Experts and a Federal Court President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to align with a Health and Human Services assessment…
$3.3 Million Federal Grant to Investigate Whether Virtual Nursing Can Curb a Burnout Crisis Pushing Nurses Out of the Profession A University of North Carolina researcher has secured a $3.3 million federal grant to study whether virtual nursing — now…
Tank Temperature Rising, Explosion Risk Grows at Garden Grove Aerospace Facility A critically unstable tank holding roughly 7,000 gallons of highly toxic methyl methacrylate (MMA) at a Garden Grove aerospace facility is growing more dangerous by the hour, officials confirmed…
Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Mifepristone Access, But the Drug’s Future Remains Uncertain The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily restored mail access to the abortion drug mifepristone, halting a lower court ruling that would have forced patients to obtain the medication…
A new trend is taking hold in the self-help world: using artificial intelligence to guide “rejection therapy,” where individuals deliberately seek out rejection to build resilience. While proponents claim AI can help optimize this psychological exercise, experts warn about the…
Health experts are urging younger adults to pay attention to colorectal cancer risks and screening after actor James Van Der Beek died at 48 following a battle with colon cancer, a death that has renewed attention on the disease’s rising…
Compounds found in aloe vera may warrant further testing as potential Alzheimer’s drug leads, according to a computer-modeling study that examined whether plant molecules could bind to enzymes involved in the brain’s acetylcholine signaling. The research, published in Current Pharmaceutical…
The New York Times editorial board is changing its tone on marijuana. In a Tuesday editorial titled “It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem,” the board said the United States has “gone too far” in…