Latest public health Stories
Giving ex-convicts healthcare helps all of us
Searching in vein: a history of artificial blood
Why don’t we grow to be 10 feet tall?
African swine fever has killed a million pigs—and isn’t slowing down
California’s tap water could be a cancerous cocktail of pollutants
Football on turf is hard on the knees
Doctors can ignore your DNR order if you’re pregnant
Think you can survive on five hours’ sleep? Keep dreaming.
Ground beef is behind the latest E. coli outbreak
Think you have a concussion? The FDA says there’s not an app for that.
You might not need a mammogram until you turn 50
A girl with measles exposed 200 people to the virus in a single ER
What we know about the polio-like illness paralyzing children—and what we don’t
Air pollution from corn production might contribute to thousands of deaths each year
Emergency rooms push Medicaid patients out more often than privately-insured people
Taxing soda would help make kids healthier
Finding the world’s super poopers could save a lot of butts
We’re in the middle of the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak ever
Why public health officials have only ever eradicated one disease
Healthy food prescriptions could save billions in healthcare costs
Noisy joints aren’t dangerous—here’s how they make their pop
Rabid animals don’t always foam at the mouth—here’s what to look out for instead
Vaping is probably bad for your heart
Wearable sensors designed for premature babies could make us all healthier
We need to police gene editing. The World Health Organization agrees.
The FDA is questioning the safety of 14 common sunscreen ingredients
What Washington can learn from past measles outbreaks
Oral yeast infection medications may be risky during pregnancy
If fruit flies live without sleeping, why can’t I?
Children suffer more from air pollution, but our policies don’t reflect that
Doctors have been overprescribing fentanyl for years and the FDA hasn’t been able to stop it
What we know about diet soda’s connection to heart disease, stroke, and early death
Here’s why ultra-processed foods are so bad for your health
Supplements make false claims to prey on people with Alzheimer’s—but the FDA is cracking down
Cancer rates are rising in young adults. Here’s how to lower your risk.
Half of Americans have heart disease, but there are easy ways to reduce your risk
X-rays could provide crucial clues in identifying domestic violence
1 in 4 kindergartners aren’t fully vaccinated in county with measles outbreak
Most health ‘cures’ you hear about in the news aren’t ready for humans
Why measles is back, in five charts
‘Shock therapy’ isn’t as scary as its name—or the movies—suggest
Washington hopes locking unvaccinated kids out of school will prevent its next measles outbreak
Natural disasters leave their mark on kids who live through them
Accessing health records on your iPhone is a dream and a nightmare
The anti-vax movement is among this year’s top 10 global health threats
Please don’t pay $8,000 for an infusion of young blood
Junk food ads disproportionally target black and Hispanic kids over white kids
Here’s how the government shutdown could affect your health
We’re creeping back up to mid ‘90s-level gun death rates
Too impatient to meditate? A mild shock to the scalp could help.
The link between baby powder and cancer is easier to prove in a courtroom than in a lab
The International Space Station is crawling with bacteria and some may be harmful
Air pollution might make it harder to get pregnant
Wildfires can hurt you from miles away
Cell phones pose plenty of risks, but none of them are cancer
DNA evidence could soon tell cops your age, whether you smoke, and what you ate for breakfast
Adenovirus is normally harmless—here’s why some outbreaks turn deadly
Do I have a cold or the flu?
This new device could teach us how the crud in our air affects our health
The Apple Watch is evolving into a legitimate medical device
Of course semi-automatic guns are deadlier. Here’s why scientists took so long to say so.
Hurricane Harvey’s record-setting floodwaters were packed with pollution and disease
When you should eat breakfast—and when you can probably skip it
Probiotics are drugs, so we should test them like drugs