For decades, gonorrhea was considered a routine, easily treatable sexually transmitted infection. That assumption no longer holds. Around the world, doctors have been warning that the bacterium causing gonorrhea is becoming resistant to nearly every...

The childhood vaccination schedule is undergoing one of the most consequential shifts in decades. Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have voted to end the universal hepatitis B vaccine...

Norovirus, often called the “winter vomiting disease,” is spreading quickly across the United States, with cases rising sharply as the colder season unfolds. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and...

Why has doom-scrolling short videos become a daily ritual for millions Short-video platforms such as Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts now dominate the way people consume content. Their design is simple: swipe, watch, repeat....

Popular GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound are already known for a long list of side effects ranging from nausea and diarrhea to headaches and fatigue. But new research suggests these blockbuster drugs...

Outbreak expands as more babies are hospitalized Infant botulism cases in the United States continue to climb, with 31 babies now hospitalized since early this year in connection with contaminated ByHeart infant formula. The company...

The first confirmed human infection of the H5N5 bird flu virus in the United States has prompted renewed scrutiny of how avian influenza strains jump species. The case, involving an older Washington state resident with...

Novo Nordisk has slashed the cash price of its blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy to $349 per month, accelerating a pricing deal it had originally planned to implement in January under a previously announced agreement with...

A British woman who was told she had lung cancer and underwent major surgery later discovered that she had been misdiagnosed. What doctors believed to be a malignant tumor was actually pneumonia, a finding that...

Organic baby formula maker ByHeart has announced a nationwide recall of all its infant formula products after at least 15 cases of infant botulism were reported across a dozen U.S. states. The company and federal...