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Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments

adminMarch 15, 2025

by adminMarch 15, 2025031

Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on unproven remedies endorsed by Robert...

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Science Amid Chaos: What Worked During the Pandemic? What Failed?

adminMarch 14, 2025

by adminMarch 14, 2025029

Until 2020, few Americans needed to think about how viruses spread or how the human immune system works. The pandemic offered a painful crash course....

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History Isn’t Entirely Repeating Itself in Covid’s Aftermath

adminMarch 11, 2025

by adminMarch 11, 2025026

Five years after Covid-19 shut down activities all over the world, medical historians sometimes struggle to place the pandemic in context. What, they are asking,...

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Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health

adminMarch 10, 2025

by adminMarch 10, 2025033

In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas...

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Covid-19: Enduring Images of a Global Crisis, 5 Years On

adminMarch 10, 2025

by adminMarch 10, 2025028

We asked 19 photographers to revisit their most enduring images of the coronavirus pandemic, five years after the virus became a global threat. Their photographs...

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How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks

adminMarch 7, 2025

by adminMarch 7, 2025024

Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other checkpoints. Millions of unscreened animals...

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As Measles Continues to Spread in Texas, Cases Jump in New Mexico

adminMarch 7, 2025

by adminMarch 7, 2025026

A raging measles outbreak in West Texas, which has so far killed one child, has not abated and may have taken root in New Mexico,...

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Unvaccinated New Mexico Resident Dies of Suspected Measles

adminMarch 6, 2025

by adminMarch 6, 2025027

An unvaccinated person who died in New Mexico has tested positive for measles, state health officials said on Thursday, possibly the second such fatality in...

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Cod Liver Oil? Vaccines? A G.O.P. Skeptic Confronts Kennedy’s Fine Line on Measles

adminMarch 6, 2025

by adminMarch 6, 2025026

Perhaps no vote was as agonizing for Senator Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican and medical doctor, than his vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr....

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Measles Outbreak Continues to Spread in West Texas

adminMarch 4, 2025

by adminMarch 4, 2025029

A measles outbreak that has spread over a swath of West Texas, killing one child, shows no signs of slowing, according to data announced on...

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