Tag: Disease

Stock image of a doctor explaining something to a patient.

Modern science can reverse heart disease. Washington prefers cheap statins

Eric Wargotz · October 11, 2026 8:00 am

People walking outside an anti-plague research facility in Russia.

Cause of death in Russian pneumonia case still unknown, World Health Organization says

Carter Schroppe · October 10, 2026 6:58 pm

Marco Rubio

State Department requests additional information from Moscow on plague scare

Brady Knox · October 7, 2026 11:58 am

Donald Trump, right, holds Vladimir Putin's, arm, left, in a soothing manner.

Trump says he’ll call Putin ‘very soon’ about suspected Russian plague case

Claire Carter · October 6, 2026 7:24 pm

CDC says ‘no indication’ of threat to US after suspected Russian plague death

Molly Parks · October 6, 2026 4:22 pm

Food and Drug Administration's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee recently voted against recommending the approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD.

Stop forcing vets abroad: Trump’s FDA is bringing a game-changing PTSD treatment home

Kyle Diamantas, Mike Davis · October 6, 2026 5:00 am

FILE - In this March 27, 2019, file photo, a woman receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y. Measles outbreaks in the U.S. and abroad are raising health experts' concern about the preventable, once-common childhood virus. The CDC on Thursday, April 11, 2024 released a report on recent measles case trends, noting that cases in the first three months of this year were 17 times higher than the average number seen in the first three months of the previous three years. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Hochul declares disaster emergency over New York measles surge

David Zimmermann · October 5, 2026 11:05 pm

This undated photo released in 2019 by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab.

Rubio says reported Russian lab leak is a ’cause for focus’ but not ‘alarm’

Timothy Nerozzi · October 5, 2026 3:04 pm

This undated photo released by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab in Russia.

Russian researcher who studied plague died of mysterious illness: What to know

Brady Knox · October 5, 2026 9:36 am

The Food and Drug Administration seal.

Fairness and Justice

The FDA’s new leadership must give rare disease patients a clearer path

David Gusick · October 2, 2026 11:00 am

Anna Hicks places the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in a refrigerator

Pennsylvania reports fifth measles death as US outbreak escalates

Claire Carter · September 30, 2026 7:20 pm

A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seal is viewed outside of a VA Clinic in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Women fight America’s wars. The military healthcare system fails them at home

Eric Wargotz · September 28, 2026 10:00 am