Medical science has profoundly changed our lives. I am sure that I would not have survived to this old age without antibiotics, advances in epidemiology and surgery. I was a child in the 1930s. We ...

May 12, 2025 An innovative outbreak detection program that tracks disease-causing viruses in wastewater identified the measles virus in Houston samples collected in early January 2025, before cases ...

Brooks and Atkins Stohr on Trump's return and its impact on the country New York Times columnist David Brooks and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of the Boston Globe join William Brangham to discuss the year in ...

Washington DC - The US in 2025 has recorded its worst measles epidemic in more than 30 years, according to a count released Monday by Johns Hopkins University, highlighting a crisis that President ...

This explainer about childhood vaccines, originally published on Feb. 26, 2025, was updated on Jan. 5, 2026, with information about the new vaccine schedule after federal health officials reduced the ...