Beth Mole

Researchers now have clear new targets and insights for developing a Shigella vaccine.

CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.

The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.

8 pts Following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's startling announcement in July that the US military would begin mandatory testosterone screening for personnel, the Pentagon released a clinical guidance document on September 2 outlining the new medically questionable policy. The next day, though, the clinical…

It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."

Laptops don't usually get hot enough to burn—but they can still be harmful.

For a child bursting with energy, few things are more fun than hurtling through a bouncy castle, launching into the air, and ping-ponging between every surface.

22 pts For a child bursting with energy, few things are more fun than hurtling through a bouncy castle, launching into the air, and ping-ponging between every surface. But that childhood buoyancy will quickly deflate when it turns out those surfaces are smeared with a hypervirulent, multidrug-resistant pathogen. That…

A 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania has died of complications from measles, according to the county's coroner.

14 pts A 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania has died of complications from measles, according to the county's coroner. It marks the third vaccine-preventable, measles-linked death in the US this year. All three have occurred in Pennsylvania, which is experiencing an explosive outbreak that has caused…