When four states between 2015 and 2021 stopped allowing parents to opt their children out of receiving routine vaccines without a medical reason, vaccination rates among kindergartners increased substantially. That's the ...
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As the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 stretched on, scientists watched for all sorts of unintended effects, from social to economic to environmental.
Nov 3, 2025
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Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have discovered that some people can carry large amounts of a multidrug-resistant strain of Escherichia coli sequence ...
Oct 30, 2025
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The World Health Organization's (WHO's) priorities are being skewed by its increasing reliance on donations from organizations such as the Gates Foundation (previously known as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), which ...
Oct 28, 2025
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The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic could help spark the immune system to fight cancer. This is the surprising takeaway of a new study that we and our colleagues published ...
Oct 25, 2025
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The COVID-19 pandemic revealed this truth: Humans are mortal—but they will also organize, strategize and fight to survive. Now, five years since the world was changed forever by COVID-19, the questions, insights and strategies ...
Oct 24, 2025
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When harmful bacteria that cause food poisoning, such as E. coli, invade through the digestive tract, gut cells usually fight back by pushing infected cells out of the body to stop the infection from spreading.
Oct 22, 2025
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As the federal shutdown continues, states have been forced to fall back on their own resources to spot disease outbreaks—just as respiratory illness season begins.
Oct 22, 2025
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Doctors and scientists reported a case of Seoul virus infection in a woman. The Seoul virus belongs to the hantavirus family and can be transmitted by rats. In their publication of the case in the journal Emerging Infectious ...
Oct 21, 2025
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As the U.S. pulls the funding rug out from under African countries fighting infectious diseases, it is more necessary than ever for Africa to make its own medicine.
Oct 21, 2025
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