Editor’s note: Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as US surgeon general in the first Trump administration, is a distinguished professor in pharmacy practice and public health at Purdue University. The ongoing measles outbreak has reached three states and serves as a stark reminder of the vital role that herd immunity …

In the early 2000s, when Dr. Alexandra Cvijanovich was completing her medical training in Utah, her team cared for a 13-year-old boy with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a degenerative neurological disease that can be fatal. It’s a rare complication of the measles virus that appears years after the initial infection. The …

The Trump administration has not staffed an office established by Congress to prepare the nation for future pandemics, according to three sources familiar with the situation. The White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy was established by Congress in 2022 in response to mistakes that led to a …

Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may be a risk to public health, according to a new study from researchers at Cornell University that was funded by the US Food and Drug Administration. Raw milk cheeses are …

Down to their very DNA, astronauts’ bodies can change in weird and sometimes significant ways, particularly during a long flight high above the Earth: They start to elongate, often developing a taller “space height” and because human bodies are mostly liquid, redistribution of fluids may also give them “chicken legs” …

When Pastor Landon Schott attended a school board meeting for Mercy Culture Preparatory Academy last week, he found the room filled with balloons and T-shirts. The celebratory shirts read: #1 school in Texas for least amount of vaccinations. Schott, who has more than 48,000 followers on Instagram, posted a video …