The Pandemic’s Biggest Missed Opportunity
In the early evening of March 7, 2020, I was on my cellphone in an airport terminal, telling a friend that I was afraid to write an article that risked...
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The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Photographs by Jake Dockins Peter greeted me in the mostly empty gravel parking lot of a Mennonite church on the outskirts of Seminole, a small city in West Texas surrounded...
Will Wendy Williams Be on ‘The View’ This Week? What We Know
Wendy Williams, the former daytime talk show host known for her outspoken personality, has been hospitalized amid reports of her ongoing health struggles, casting doubt on her scheduled appearance on...
5 years later, long Covid is still a medical mystery: What scientists have learned
When her school closed down in March 2020, Chimére Sweeney, an English teacher in Baltimore, thought she’d return to her students once the U.S. got a handle on the new...
Trump is running from his biggest health care success
Exactly five years ago today, after more than 118,000 cases and more than 4,200 deaths across 114 countries had been recorded, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a...
Measles more likely to be severe among malnourished, RFK says
As measles cases continue to spread in several U.S. states, the spotlight is on prevention of the highly contagious disease. While vaccines are widely regarded as the first line of...
HHS secretary praises burger chain for ‘RFK’ing’ their french fries, calls on other companies to join MAHA
Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled to a Steak ‘n Shake in Florida over the weekend with Fox News host Sean Hannity, days after the...
Measles Is Back. And a Lot More People Are at Risk
A friend called recently asking about measles. She’s the mother of four very young kids and wanted to know if she should be worried. She’d heard about the large measles...
Fruit as a food choice comes with a caveat: How much is too much?
Fruit is widely regarded as a healthy food — but is there such a thing as too much? In a recent video, a Harvard researcher sets out to explore the...
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to meet with food industry leaders
Food industry leaders of General Mills and PepsiCo, along with the Consumer Brands Association, are expected to meet with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Monday, March 10. A...
