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Gender-affirming care may lower depression risk, study finds, but many are losing access
Nathan Morris/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Transgender adults who received gender-affirming hormone therapy had a significantly lower risk of moderate-to-severe depression over four years co...
Mar 17, 2025
Frontline health care workers reflect on early days of COVID 5 years after WHO declared pandemic
(Phil Fisk/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Dr. Kimberly Shriner remembers the first COVID-19 patient who came into Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California, in March 2020.He was a 35-year-old man who ar...
Mar 15, 2025
Measles cases linked to Texas outbreak grows to 259, with just 2 among fully vaccinated people
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(GAINES COUNTY, Texas) -- The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 259, with 36 cases re...
Mar 14, 2025
Former CDC director argues for stronger, nationwide guidance on infant measles vaccine dose
Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called for stronger, nationwide guidance on infant vaccine ...
Mar 14, 2025
RFK Jr. claims measles can be treated with vitamin A, linked to poor diet. Here's what science says.
(DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- Measles is continuing to spread across the United States, as outbreaks grow in western Texas and New Mexico.Between the two states, 256...
Mar 14, 2025
Europe saw highest number of measles cases last year in more than 25 years: WHO
Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Europe saw the highest number of measles cases last year in more than 25 years, according to a new report published Thursday from the World Health ...
Mar 13, 2025
Texas measles cases grow to 223, mostly among children and teens
Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto via Getty Images(AUSTIN, Texas) -- The measles outbreak in western Texas is continuing to grow with 25 cases confirmed over the last five days, bringing the total to 223 cases...
Mar 11, 2025
5 years ago, the WHO declared COVID a pandemic. Here's a look at the disease by the numbers
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Tuesday marks five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global outbreak of COVID-19 to be a pandemic.Since then, millions of America...
Mar 11, 2025
What we still don't know about COVID 5 years after the WHO declared a pandemic
TPG/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Five years ago, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic, leading to stay at-home orders and shutdowns across the U.S. and world.Th...
Mar 11, 2025
CDC asks researchers to assess how their projects align with Trump administration priorities
Jessica McGowan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a survey on March 6 asking some federally funded researchers to assess how their work aligns with the pr...
Mar 10, 2025