Can you still love summer when it’s so damn hot?
If you’ve found yourself thinking this summer feels hotter than normal, you’re right. It’s not just the occasional heat dome trapping most of the nation in 90-degree heat; the summers...
Health
Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem leaves at least one dead, 22 others sickened as health officials raise alarm
A New Yorker has died and at least 22 others have been sickened in the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem, city health officials said in an alarming update. The cluster...
New York gunman said football damaged his brain. How at risk are youth athletes?
Every fall, more than a million young Americans don helmets and padded shoulder pads to play high school football. But this year, questions are intensifying over the risk youth athletes...
Single Shot Would Protect Children From HIV for Years
Delivering a single shot of gene therapy at birth could offer children protection against HIV for years. A study from the Tulane National Primate Research Center and California National Primate...
California governor signs executive order to support boys and men and improve their mental health
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at supporting men and boys and improving their mental health outcomes, in an effort to lower...
1 dead, 22 sick from Legionnaires’ cluster in Harlem, health officials say
A person has died and nearly two dozen people have fallen ill as part of a Legionnaires’ cluster in Harlem, according to city health officials. The disease was initially detected...
Trump Announces Plan to Launch Private Health Tracking System With Big Tech Firms
The Trump Administration announced a new initiative on Wednesday designed to allow Americans to share their medical records across a host of apps and programs managed by private tech companies—a...
A type of HPV has been found to cause skin cancer, according to a new report
Doctors at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new cause of skin cancer, according to a case report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The...
Ousted vaccine panel members say rigorous science is being abandoned
NEW YORK (AP) — The 17 experts who were ousted from a government vaccine committee last month say they have little faith in what the panel has become, and have...
Rare flu complication causing brain swelling is rising in kids, doctors warn
Severe flu seasons in recent years have brought to light a little-known danger of influenza infections in kids: a rare brain disease called acute necrotizing encephalopathy, or ANE. It’s a...
