3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1016+ words) Democratic lawmakers are calling for the immediate termination of an interagency agreement that would give the Department of Defense access to billions of dollars that Congress appropriated to the National Institutes of Health for infectious disease research. The agreement has…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (692+ words) Pennsylvania has now hospitalized 98 people in its measles outbreak, about 17 percent of the state's 577 confirmed cases, against a national hospitalization rate of roughly 8 percent. That gap is the part of this outbreak that has received the least attention and carries…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1057+ words) A second person has died in the multistate Salmonella outbreaks linked to backyard poultry, and the national case count has roughly doubled since early summer to 1,061 people across 46 states and Puerto Rico. In its August 27 revision, the Centers for Disease…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (774+ words) That matters most for pregnant women, newborns, adults over 65, and anyone whose immune system is suppressed by illness or medication. For everyone else, the risk is real but far smaller. The remaining 25 items are cream cheese and spread flavors, from…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (774+ words) A nationwide recall of feline milk replacers is circulating for a reason that is easy to misread. The problem is not contamination. It is that the formula fed to orphaned newborn kittens was missing enough of several nutrients that the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (747+ words) Two people in the United States with normally functioning immune systems developed chronic lumps under the skin of their elbows, and the cause turned out to be a genus of fungus that ordinarily spends its life decaying dead wood. Both…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (971+ words) Whole genome sequencing of patient samples from a multistate Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak linked to Texas eggs predicted that the bacteria in all 98 cases were nonsusceptible to ciprofloxacin and resistant to nalidixic acid, two drugs tied to the antibiotic class most…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (832+ words) Nearly nine in ten Americans say they trust their own doctor or nurse to give them reliable information about public health. Barely six in ten say the same about the federal agencies that generate most of that information. That gap…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (826+ words) A federally funded trial of 959 adults with long COVID found that stretching Paxlovid well past its usual five-day course did not improve symptoms compared with placebo. The published trial results appeared August 31, 2026, in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and come from…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (917+ words) The national picture is that 2,903 confirmed cases were reported across the United States in 2026, current through August 27, already well above the 2,289 recorded in all of 2025. The CDC publishes only confirmed cases that jurisdictions have formally notified to the agency, reflected…...