Category: Health
A mental health checklist for college students
Students should not wait until they are on campus to begin thinking about how to protect their emotional well-being, experts say.
US could lose battle against monkeypox, scientists...
Longstanding weaknesses in the public health system are giving the virus a chance to become entrenched.
Joyce C. Lashof, doctor who broke glass ceilings, ...
In Illinois, she was the first woman to head a state public health department. She went on to become dean of the School of Public ...
A better way to measure immunity in children
Some scientists believe that a clearer picture of Covid vaccine efficacy could have emerged sooner if investigators had tracked ce...
Not just for birds: bird flu also kills wild mamma...
As a new version of bird flu spread through North America this spring, scientists began finding the virus in red foxes, bobcats an...
Vaccines for young children are coming, but many p...
The vaccines seem safe for children and are likely to protect against severe illness. But data on efficacy is thin, and most child...
Britain declares national incident after polio vir...
No cases of polio have been identified so far, but health officials urged those who were not fully immunized to seek vaccines imme...
Florida Meningococcal Disease Epidemic Grows, C.D....
So far, 26 cases, including seven deaths, have been identified, primarily in men who have sex with men.
Scientists zero in on origins of monkeypox outbrea...
Even as cases rise, genetic analysis suggests that the virus has been silently circulating in people since 2018.
F.D.A. Order Juul to stop selling e-cigarettes
The agency ruled against the company’s application to stay on the market, a decisive blow to a once-popular vaping brand that appe...
When pregnancy risks meet abortion and health care...
Even before the wave of abortion bans, medical treatment and advice for pregnancy has largely focused on fetal safety over the mot...
The Many Uses of CRISPR: The Scientists Say It All
What do infectious diseases, T-cells, tomatoes, heart failure, sickle cell anemia and sorghum harvests have in common?
