A north central California hospital faces closure this fall after losing its designation as a federal critical access hospital. Closure of the Glenn Medical Center means residents will have to travel …
A new study finds that climate change is increasing sugar consumption in the United States. As temperatures rise, Americans, especially those who are poorer and less educated, are drinking more …
The Switzerland-based Balzan Foundation on Monday announced four awards of nearly $1 million for excellence in the humanities and hard sciences. The 2025 Balzan awards go to American historian Josiah …
A new law requiring Texas schools to obtain parental consent before administering health care services to students has triggered confusion among campus nurses who worry they could face punishment for …
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New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as oceans warm. Prochlorococcus is the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton. A …
Study: Warming seas severely threaten phytoplankton, endangering the ocean food web.
At the Port of Los Angeles on a site that once housed oil tanks, seven steel structures that look like small blue boats are lowered into the ocean, where they gently bob up and down with the waves to …
A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced Monday that Bill Stewart of Dover, New …
Florida has a plan to drop school vaccine mandates. But it likely won’t take effect for 90 days and would include only chickenpox and a few others unless lawmakers decide to extend it to other …
Members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s family are calling for him to step down as health secretary. This follows a contentious congressional hearing this past week, when the Trump Cabinet official …
Congo's authorities have announced a new Ebola outbreak that has killed more than a dozen people in a southern province. Samples analyzed at the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa …
More than 2,200 people died in an earthquake that hit Afghanistan’s mountainous east. China showcased its military might in a parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II as it …
A Palestinian toddler is recovering after being evacuated from Gaza to a hospital in Italy for treatment of severe malnutrition worsened by a genetic metabolic disease. Little Shamm Qudeih was …
Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a Nigerian-born physician with impeccable U.S. medical credentials, says that requiring vaccinations for diseases like measles, polio and chickenpox amounts to government-imposed …
The widening debate over vaccine mandates in the U.S. and recent moves to get rid of them for schoolchildren in Florida are pushing some states to take steps to protect vaccines for children and …
The debut of updated COVID-19 vaccines has gotten off to a clunky start in many states. Limits on who can get the shots and prescription requirements are confusing customers and leaving some worried …
The Justice Department is drawing swift condemnation from gun rights groups and LGBTQ advocates alike after floating that it was considering restricting transgender people from owning guns — a move …
A neurosurgeon says there are “rays of hope” for a 12-year-old girl critically injured in a Minneapolis church shooting. Sophia Forchas was among the most seriously wounded when a shooter opened …
International officials say contaminated metal at an industrial site in Indonesia could be the source of radioactive material behind recalls of imported shrimp. BMS Foods, the exporter of millions of …