Health Aug 17 U.S. school vaccination rates inch down again as exemptions reach record high By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press
Health Aug 16 Chronic pain is missing from America's heat warnings The results of a new study suggest that chronic pain deserves a place in how the country prepares people for extreme weather. They also show that rural residents may be the least protected. By Feinuo Sun, The Conversation
Health Aug 15 Cyclospora spreads through human waste — so how did it get on food? The nationwide cyclospora outbreak is very likely a result of sewage contamination in the food supply, according to scientific researchers and public health officials. By Joan Rose, The Conversation
Health Aug 14 Watch 9:07 Congo Ebola outbreak on track to become deadliest in history The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to worsen, with the number of confirmed cases climbing to over 4,600. At least 2,100 people have died, a death toll that was reached almost three times faster than the… By William Brangham, Solveig Rennan Sandbulte
Health Aug 14 Trump's vaccine order would require millions of individual shots last used decades ago Monday’s announcement by Trump calls for separating combination shots — including the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine — into separate injections. By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press
Aug 13 Watch 4:57 Baby elephant at National Zoo helps lead fight against deadly disease By Deema Zein, Layla Quran Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus is the leading cause of death in young Asian elephants. One baby elephant is at the center of an effort that could transform how the disease is managed in these gentle giants worldwide. Deema Zein reports. Continue watching
Aug 12 Trump's vaccine order hands some MAHA voters a win. It also gives Democrats an attack line By Ali Swenson, Associated Press President Donald Trump pivoted the nation’s attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits. Continue reading
Aug 12 Lindsay Clancy trial turns focus to medications prescribed before she killed her children By Michael Casey, Associated Press Clancy messaged one of her caregivers less than two months before she killed her three young children in 2023 to say she was having “intrusive thoughts I never had before,” “feeling completely hopeless” and worried about becoming addicted to some… Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch 7:46 How a catering truck helped Trump secretly switch planes amid threat from Iran By Nick Schifrin, Eliot Barnhart Correction: In this segment, we misstated the year Major General Qasem Soleimani was killed. We should have said 2020, as the on-screen graphic indicated. We regret the error. The News Hour has confirmed the Washington Post's reporting on extraordinary, secret… Continue watching
Aug 11 Fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has claimed 2,000 lives. Here's why it is hard to contain By Cara Anna, Monika Pronczuk, Associated Press Congo’s health authorities report 4,381 confirmed cases, including 2,011 deaths. This outbreak is spreading almost three times faster than the 2014-16 outbreak in West Africa, the deadliest in history. Continue reading