Loading...

Tag trends are in beta. Feedback? Thoughts? Email me at [email protected]

Meta-analysis finds maternal RSV vaccination was 73.6% effective against hospitalization in infants under 6 months, but only 27.1% of 1.3 million US pregnancies were vaccinated in the 2023/24 season

A medieval remedy could offer ideas for beating antibiotic resistance

Hedgehog coronavirus poses little risk of jump to humans

Fiji has had a 12-fold increase in HIV infection cases between 2010 and 2025. Here's why.

Long-term adherence to the recommended ≥150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity per week may help prevent obesity in middle-aged women, study suggests

Tylenol during pregnancy not linked to autism, ADHD, major review finds

Screening newborns for congenital cytomegalovirus, the leading nongenetic cause of childhood hearing loss, raised detection 2.5-fold across a 50,438-birth hospital system; 34 infected infants found among 7,491 screened

Dementia needs ‘cancer-style revolution’ in care, report says

Blacklegged ticks in Western North Carolina now match Northeast Lyme disease infection rates (~40%), confirming the southern Appalachia expansion of northern vector lineages

Global disease outbreak maps track healthcare access far more than actual ecology

A new study estimates based on donor-derived rabies transmission events that China and the US diagnosed rabies in only 28.7% and 6.1% of rabies decedents, respectively, during the study years.

Study of over 40,000 people receiving methadone treatment for opioid use disorder found take-home dosing was associated with lower mortality and treatment discontinuation than no take-home dosing, with the greatest benefits when initiated within 5 to 24 weeks after induction.

A widely proposed pathway from hearing loss to cognitive decline, that poor hearing reduces social activity which in turn harms cognition, did not hold in a six-year study of 10,561 Mexican adults aged 50 and older once education and income were accounted for

A Canadian study found British Columbia’s drug decriminalization was associated with 39% fewer police encounters for possession, with no detectable change in drug-related hospitalizations or overdose deaths; possession encounters returned to previous levels after partial recriminalization.

Among U.S

Study estimates only 7% of human rabies cases in the United States are diagnosed

Congo begins Ebola vaccinations to fight country’s worst outbreak in history, health minister says

Study finds alpha-gal syndrome can cause severe allergic reactions to blood transfusions for some

CDC: Persistent low-level transmission of clade IIb monkeypox virus (MPXV) in the United States suggests a likely transition toward endemic circulation.

'Natural Protection From Asthma And Allergies': Scientists Isolate Bacteria Behind The Immune System Farm Effect

Researchers probing the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study found young kids who drank 100% juices multiple times per day had a 25 percent higher risk of asthma compared to kids who consumed those beverages less than twice per week.

A single US measles outbreak can cost millions of dollars, study estimates

A Swedish study found autism diagnoses rose by around 800% from 2001 to 2020, while the proportion with intellectual disability fell from 55.8% to 6.7%, suggesting a substantial broadening of the diagnosed autistic phenotype

No link between MMR vaccination before age 2 and autism, large US study suggests

In a retrospective cohort of 107,505 preterm infants (median gestational age 30 weeks [IQR, 27-32]), probiotic-associated sepsis proved exceedingly rare

Same-day coadministration of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines was not associated with an increased risk for adverse events in 3 updated-formulation periods

Among Mexican-origin adults aged 74 and older, 5-year survival was higher in Mexico than in the United States at every level of illness, including 40.9% versus 36.6% among those with both diabetes and dementia and 77.5% versus 73.3% among those with neither

After lab study finds interspecies spread of CWD prions, experts debate significance for humans

New study tracking 1,600 individuals over 24 years finds frailty accelerates the onset of dementia by 2–3 years

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria increasingly leaving children vulnerable to common infections

More →