Health

Scientists Hail This Medical Breakthrough. A Political Storm Could Cripple It.

admin9 May 2025

Therapies involving mRNA, a key to Covid vaccines, hold great potential in treating several diseases, but some lawmakers want to ban them and the government is cutting funding.

Trump Budget Cuts Funding for Chronic Disease Prevention

admin3 May 2025

Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.

Kennedy Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination

admin3 May 2025

Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.

What Medicaid Cuts Would Do to My Rural Hospital

admin2 May 2025

If you have ever felt stress after passing a highway sign warning, “No gas next 90 miles,” you understand the importance of my hospital. I am the chief executive of Lincoln Health, a 25-bed county-owned hospital in Hugo, Colo., a town of about 800 ...

Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions

admin30 April 2025

With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists.

U.S. Officials to Cut Funding for Landmark Study of Women’s Health

admin26 April 2025

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced thousands of research papers, altering medical care for patients around the world.

Milwaukee’s Lead Crisis: Flaky Paint, Closed Schools and a C.D.C. in Retreat

admin25 April 2025

Some children were exposed to lead and investigators found flaking paint inside aging schools. Two federal experts, expected to help guide the response, have lost their jobs.

Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says

admin24 April 2025

The victims died on a grueling three-hour walk in scorching heat as they tried to reach the nearest remaining health facility, officials of Save the Children said.