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A parasitic illness spreading through Michigan and Ohio has now sickened more than 1,400 people, and public […]
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Danny Glover, 79, told Lester Holt on TODAY that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2023.
Nearly 685,000 bags of Zapp’s and Dirty brand potato chips are now under the Food and Drug
The FDA has recalled 11,460 bottles of Chlorthalidone tablets after the pills failed dissolution testing, meaning they
A federal judge struck down the Trump administration’s restrictions on what Americans can purchase with food stamps
Emma Heming Willis wants people to understand something about her husband’s condition that most of the public
The FDA just slapped its highest-risk classification on a recall of alfredo sauce distributed across 41 states,
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The New World screwworm reached Texas in June 2026. DOGE cut the Central America monitoring program that helped keep it out, and RFK Jr. is the face of the anti-science worldview that left America defenseless.
Stress rarely arrives all at once. More often, it accumulates through dozens of small pressures scattered throughout
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A drug called daraxonrasib nearly doubled the average survival time for people with advanced pancreatic cancer in
For three years, the political fight over transgender medicine was sold to the public as a fight
President Donald Trump arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday for what the White
The WHO declared the 2026 Ebola outbreak a global health emergency as the first American tested positive in Congo. The CDC says U.S. risk remains low.
Three dead and 149 stranded off Cape Verde after a hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius. The expedition cruise boom outran its biosecurity playbook.
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As people become older, their safety and independence are more of a concern, especially when it comes
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Walk down the supplement aisle in Boots, or scroll Amazon’s UK protein category for ten minutes, and
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RFK Jr. is in the middle of a seven-hearing congressional marathon, defending measles outbreaks on his watch, a $16 billion budget cut to HHS, and vaccine policy rollbacks that a federal judge had to block. The hearings reveal how far America’s public health infrastructure has eroded under his leadership.
President Trump signed an executive order directing the FDA to fast-track psychedelic drug research, with Joe Rogan standing behind him in the Oval Office. The order targets psilocybin, MDMA, LSD, and ibogaine for mental health treatment, allocating $50 million to state programs. The science is real. The process that got us here is something else entirely.
