10+ hour, 26+ min ago   (410+ words) A 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania has died of complications from measles, according to the county’s coroner. It marks the third vaccine-preventable, measles-linked death in the US this year. All three have occurred in Pennsylvania, which is experiencing an…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (223+ words) The strain lurking in the inflatable structure was hypervirulent. For a child bursting with energy, few things are more fun than hurtling through a bouncy castle, launching into the air, and ping-ponging between every surface. But that childhood buoyancy will…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (485+ words) Laptops don’t usually get hot enough to burn—but they can still be harmful. Fears that modern electronic devices may harm children are nothing new. Gadgets with screens of any size have long been allegedly melting, rotting, and/or corrupting…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (578+ words) Here are the evidence-based recommendations and this year’s vaccine rollout. Labor Day is in the rearview mirror, kids are back to school, and a squall of pumpkin spice is upon us. It’s that time again to prepare for the equally…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (580+ words) Ars Technica Late last week, word started leaking that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had reached an agreement with the Department of Defense that would see part of the NIH’s budget used to fund research at the Department of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (304+ words) “It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives.” A six-week-old baby girl in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, died from measles, the county coroner confirmed to local press Friday. Stephen Diamantoni, a Republican first elected coroner in 2007, told…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (302+ words) Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks. Sheeppox is a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease that was largely eradicated from much of European livestock in the 20th century But there is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (459+ words) The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day. Following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s startling announcement in July that the US military would begin mandatory testosterone screening for personnel, the Pentagon released a clinical guidance…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (314+ words) Researchers now have clear new targets and insights for developing a Shigella vaccine. Having more than 150 non-human primates at a research center fall ill with diarrhea in a stomach-churning outbreak that flowed for over two years doesn’t sound much like…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (312+ words) CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still secretly counting two measles deaths that were deleted from the agency’s public measles data—a deletion that occurred…...