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“Like hyenas on a dead body”: a Congolese aid veteran on the Ebola response

Measles, bird flu, and Ebola are spreading. NIH just made its disease experts easier to fire.

Europe Got This Sunscreen in 2000. America Just Caught Up.

A Diabetes Society Had Police Remove the Editor of Its Own Journal. Then It Apologized.

Mosquito Season at the World Cup: What Fans Need to Know

How to Stay Healthy at the World Cup

Why a 3,572-pregnancy study can’t tell you Ozempic is safe in pregnancy

Grant Wahl Should Be Covering this World Cup

CDC Says the Outbreak Could Reach 20,000 Cases. Here’s What That Means.

The CDC’s Own Workers Are Calling It Abandonment

The Companies That Made Marlboro Made Your Food

Minerals, deportations, and medicine. Inside Trump’s bilateral health agreements.

A 30% Risk Reduction Sounds Big. The Actual Numbers Tell a Different Story.

The $2.5 Billion Reason Kenya Can't Say No

Who’s Selling You Creatine, and What They’re Not Saying

What Trump’s Physical Exam Doesn’t Test

The Doctors Are Farming Cassava

His own country wouldn't take him back.

“Act Now Before It’s Too Late”

Why the Kenya Ebola Facility May Be Unconstitutional

The U.S. Has Tried to Wall Off Disease Since 1878. It Has Never Worked.

The Best Screening Colon Cancer Screening Test Is the One You Actually Get

The people selling you peptides on TikTok are making money off your trust.

The Harder You Push, the Harder They Push Back

Why Citizenship-Based Travel Bans Fail the Precautionary Principle

My colleagues and I published op-eds about Ebola this week. Here's where we agree.

Disease, Borders, and Blame: A Seven-Century Pattern

An American doctor with Ebola was evacuated to Berlin. The U.S. has biocontainment units.

CDC Used Title 42 to Ban Travelers Over Ebola. Its Own Order Explains Why That Won’t Work.

The Smartphone Minerals War That Destroyed Congo's Health System — Just in Time for Ebola

The Ebola Disinformation Playbook Activated in Under 12 Hours

What Ebola Experts Learned the First Time—and What’s Different Now

The Quarantine Powers We Gutted After COVID Are the Ones Many Want Now

Congo’s New Ebola Outbreak Has No Vaccine, No Treatment, and Has Already Crossed a Border

A Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak Has People Worried About NYC Rats. They Shouldn’t Be.

The 7th Grade Science Class That Could Have Prevented a Lot of Bad Medical Decisions

How Tobacco Money Bought Mango Vapes

Why Cruise Ships Can’t Shake Norovirus

Can Andes virus spread through the air?

Doctors Got 2% of the Views

We're Talking About Doing the Dishes, Not the Marriage

The CDC’s New Management Style: Announce It on TV, Enforce the Opposite

Hantavirus Patients Are in U.S. Quarantine. There's No Approved Test or Treatment for Them.

Hantavirus is not COVID. The real problem is the communication void.

Hantavirus Isn't the Next Pandemic. The Crisis Is Who's Left to Say So.

Drs. Céline Gounder & Tom Frieden talk all things public health

Trump Promised Cheaper Drugs. Some Prices Dropped. Many Others Shot Up.

Hantavirus: What It Is, How It Spreads, and Why It's So Deadly

MAHA Voters Want Lower Health Care Costs, Not Food Dye Bans

Hantavirus Killed Three People on a Cruise Ship. The U.S. Isn't Part of the Investigation.

Trump's New Surgeon General Pick Wrote the Test. She May Not Pass It.

The Asymmetry at the Heart of MAHA: Reversible Food Wins, Institutional Vaccine Damage

The FDA Called Infant Formula Safe. It Doesn't Have a Standard for What That Means.

98% of meat and dairy industry climate claims are greenwashing, study finds

The Government Told Women to Get Estrogen Patches. It Didn't Make Sure There Were Enough.

Medical Marijuana Just Got Easier to Research. Here’s What We Already Know — and Don’t.

33.5 Million Children Are Breathing Failing Air. The EPA Just Stopped Counting Them.

What $1 Billion a Day Buys in American Health Care

Your Prescription Drugs Are Made of Oil. A War Just Cut Off the Supply.

Tick Bites Are Surging. The System to Track Them Isn't.

AI Health Podcasts Are Multiplying Faster Than Anyone Can Check Them

More Detention, Fewer Doctors, No Oversight: ICE's Mortality Crisis by Design

The CDC May Finally Get a New Director. The Damage Is Already Done.

Ibogaine: We're Funding Research While the Experiment Runs Unsupervised

The End of Title X as We Know It

Why Drug Coupons Exist

Microplastics Are in Your Body. Regulation Is Still Catching Up.

The FDA Approves Foundayo (orforglipron), Lilly's GLP-1 Weight-Loss Pill. Most People Still Won’t Get It.

New Guidance from the American Heart Association

CDC’s Acting Chief Promises a Return to Stability in a Tumultuous Moment

This Wasn’t a Fight About Vaccines

The “AI vs AI” Era of Medical Claims, and What It Means for Patients

The First Female Chief of Staff and an Early-Stage Cancer Diagnosis That Doesn’t Pause the Job

Lost in Transmission: Changes in Organ Donor Status Can Fall Through Cracks in the System

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War, Oil Shocks, and Public Health: Could the Iran Conflict Trigger Another Lost Decade for Prevention?

The $100 Heart Scan Many Cardiologists Say Could Prevent Heart Attacks

43% of Americans Say They’ve Skipped Medicine Because of Cost

Disease once linked to mining hits workers in countertops industry

A Lesson in Civil Service

A New Tylenol Study Doesn’t Show What the Headlines May Claim

Teaching Doctors About Nutrition Won’t Fix America’s Food System

An Autism Drug Got a White House Boost. Prescriptions Soon Followed.

A New Era for Breast Cancer Screening

The Only Diet Rule That Actually Matters

The Warning Starts Before Midlife: How Pregnancy Predicts, and Shapes, Women’s Heart Disease

Casey Means Faces a Confirmation Test Over Vaccines, Credentials, and Conflicts

A “Great Healthcare Plan,” but Few Answers on Affordability

After El Mencho: A Turning Point in America’s Overdose Crisis?

The Dangerous Myth About Women’s Heart Blockages

The Market for Reassurance in Cancer Screening

Eric Dane Died of ALS at 53. Who Is at Risk?

Why Fewer Pregnant Women Are Starting Care in the First Trimester

The Air We Breathe May Be Raising Our Risk of Alzheimer’s

The New Face of Colorectal Cancer

Coffee, Dementia, and the Problem With Feel-Good Science

Rich People Live Longer. A Super Bowl Ad Says So, But Leaves Out Why.

The Migration of Trust

Wildfire Smoke Is More Dangerous Than We Thought

COVID Vaccines Still Save Lives. Here’s Why Hospitalization Protection Looks Lower.

Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Have Hypertension, and Most Aren’t Under Control

CDC: All Eligible Persons Should Receive Two MMR Vaccine Shots

Who Sets the Vaccine Schedule Now?

Pauses in CDC Vaccine Data Raise Concerns for Measles Surveillance

Moderna downsizing investments in late-stage vaccine trials amid U.S. skepticism

Bill Foege’s optimism helped save the world from smallpox

On NPR: dot Gov ’26: The Department of Health and Human Services

Autism Research Is Changing, And So Is What “Autism” Means

Measles at Home, Retreat Abroad

The Tylenol-Autism Controversy Just Got Its Answer

Fact Check: Does the Rotavirus Vaccine Cause Dangerous Bowel Blockages?

How Industry Helped Put Protein at the Center of America’s Diet

Fact Check: Does Saturated Fat Really Cause Heart Disease?

GLP-1s and the Weight Rebound Problem

Fact Check: RFK Jr. Misrepresents What the Science Says About Flu Vaccines and Children

“Eat Real Food”: A Big Rollout, Big Claims, and Big Questions

HHS Overhaul Marks Major Shift in U.S. Childhood Vaccine Policy