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What to Know About the Hepatitis A Outbreak in L.A. County

Public health officials in Los Angeles County have declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious liver infection driven by a virus...

Local Officials Brace for Loss of Disaster Preparedness Funding

St. Louis has been battered by two tornadoes in the past two months. A fire shut down a new nursing home last month...

The Government to Stop Tracking the Costs of Extreme Weather

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday it would stop tracking the cost of the country’s most expensive disasters, those which...

Sewage Sludge Fertilizer From Maryland? Virginians Say No Thanks.

In 2023, sewage plants in Maryland started to make a troubling discovery. Harmful “forever chemicals” were contaminating the state’s sewage, much of which...

The Best Way to Drop an Egg

The egg drop challenge is an annual rite of passage for many students learning about physics: Swaddle an egg in cotton balls and...

Efforts Grow to Thwart mRNA Therapies as RFK Jr. Pushes Vaccine Wariness

Utah and Tennessee passed laws requiring foods containing vaccines to be classified as drugs, even though no such foods are on the market....

What to Know About mRNA Vaccines

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. Scientists with funding from the National Institutes...

Migrants Are Skipping Medical Care, Fearing ICE, Doctors Say

A man lay on a New York City sidewalk with a gun shot wound, clutching his side.Emily Borghard, a social worker who hands...

Who Is Casey Means, Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General?

President Trump said on Wednesday that he would nominate Casey Means, a Stanford-educated doctor turned critic of corporate influence on medicine and health,...

States Sue Over Freeze on Funding for Electric-Vehicle Charging

A coalition of states led by Washington, Colorado and California sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, charging that it was unlawfully withholding billions...

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