The FDA has approved ensitrelvir (Xocova), the first oral antiviral to prevent COVID-19 after exposure, cutting symptomatic infection risk by 67% in…
Cytisinicline, a plant-derived pill, significantly helped smokers quit in phase 3 trials and is nearing FDA approval, potentially the first new smoking-cessation…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially validated Tunisia as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. This announcement marks a…
A Young Woman’s Persistent Skin Puzzle A 21-year-old woman walked into her doctor’s office with a concern that had been quietly growing…
The doctor who is now isolated inside a specialized biocontainment unit in Nebraska has shared new details about his time aboard a…
Health officials across several U.S. states are closely monitoring a group of Americans who may have been exposed to a rare and…
Over a recent weekend, my wife and I stopped for ice cream after a late movie, then remembered we needed to pick…
For decades, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been the world’s go-to agency when a mysterious disease strikes.…
Passengers aboard the MV Hondius, a cruise ship currently dealing with a hantavirus outbreak, remain at sea and are expected to dock…
In early May, news broke that three people had died from a probable hantavirus infection on the MV Hondius, a Dutch-flagged Arctic…
The Trump administration has announced it will move forward with plans to soften some of the Biden-era limits on toxic “forever chemicals”…