US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to end all monkey research ~science biology Link 39 votes
Epstein-Barr virus appears to be trigger of lupus disease ~health medicine Article 678 words, published Nov 12 2025 29 votes
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be ~humanities.history Article 3801 words 9 votes
How Bill Gates is reframing the climate change debate ~enviro climate change water.clean Article 453 words 34 votes
Researchers have found the culprit behind sea star wasting disease that has killed billions across twenty species over the last ten years ~science biology.marine Article 1055 words, published Aug 4 2025 18 votes
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than five billion sea stars ~enviro Article 633 words, published Aug 4 2025 28 votes
Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol ~health Article 777 words 21 votes
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time ~health medicine Article 1106 words 56 votes
Louisiana’s deadly whooping cough outbreak is now its worst in thirty-five years ~health Article 326 words, published Sep 3 2025 20 votes
Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian rat species trained to sniff out danger and disease ~enviro Article 1232 words 10 votes
Scientists reversed memory loss in mice due to faulty mitochondria ~science Article 948 words 11 votes
A new type of vaccine is needle-free and doubles as dental floss ~science biology.micro Article 613 words, published Aug 9 2025 29 votes
Full-body scans of 100,000 people could change way diseases are detected and treated ~health medicine healthcare Article 725 words, published Jul 14 2025 26 votes
Sight of someone potentially infectious causes immune response, research suggests ~health Article 647 words 19 votes
Novo Nordisk's ad campaign, which aimed to speak ‘without filters’ by declaring obesity a disease, has faced strong criticism on social media and from some scientific societies ~health medicine Article 1487 words, published Jun 18 2025 21 votes
UK woman dies of rabies after being scratched by a dog while traveling in Morocco ~health Article 16 votes
A-ha frontman Morten Harket has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease – biographer Jan Omdahl reveals Norwegian singer has already undergone brain surgery twice ~music pop.synth Article 979 words, published Jun 4 2025 13 votes
A huge outbreak has made Ontario the measles centre of the western hemisphere ~health Article 1353 words 39 votes
Canada achieved measles elimination status in 1998. Now, it could lose it. ~health Article 1025 words 36 votes
Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor, Starfish Neuroscience, is expecting its first brain chip this year ~health medicine Article 624 words 49 votes
Traveler infected with measles flew into and later out of Denver international airport, stayed at Denver hotel ~health Article 1030 words 28 votes
Measles exposure alert issued for Shakira concert at MetLife Stadium by New Jersey health officials ~health Article 337 words 30 votes
The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be ~humanities.history Article 15 votes
Diseases are spreading. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention isn't warning the public like it was months ago. ~health Article 2108 words 31 votes
xAI is running generators without pollution controls in Memphis ~enviro pollution.air Article 4251 words, published May 1 2025 27 votes
Texas measles outbreak grows; Michigan, Pennsylvania report new outbreaks ~health Article 308 words 48 votes
Why you should also be aware of whooping cough amid US measles outbreak ~health medicine Article 3181 words 17 votes
Immune ‘fingerprints’ aid diagnosis of complex diseases in Stanford Medicine study ~health medicine Article 917 words, published Feb 21 2025 6 votes
Study unlocks how diabetes distorts memory and reward processing. The risk of developing Alzheimer’s is 65% higher in diabetics. ~health Article 737 words, published Mar 25 2025 17 votes
Texas officials report that an unvaccinated child has died of measles ~health medicine Article 406 words 63 votes
From Tuberculosis to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of US public health ~health Article 1112 words 9 votes
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Texas measles outbreak is call to action for all of us. MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease. ~health medicine Article 797 words 34 votes
Cousin marriage: What new evidence tells us about children's risk for ill health and how governments are responding ~life relationships family Article 2872 words, published Feb 27 2025 23 votes
Measles outbreak mounts among children in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties ~health medicine Article 843 words 25 votes
Family sues over adult son's fatal asthma attack after US insurance company removed medication from coverage ~health medicine Article 578 words, published Jan 31 2025 71 votes
Measles case reported in Atlanta; Department of Public health seeks those who may have been exposed ~health Article 436 words 14 votes
Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout ~health Article 1415 words 23 votes
Growing pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say ~enviro pollution.air Article 586 words 13 votes
Battling infectious diseases in the 20th century: The impact of vaccines ~health medicine Article 38 words, published Feb 11 2015 12 votes