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We are living in an epidemic of chronic disease, with a growing number of pesticides, chemicals and food additives implicated in the declining health of Americans. Since 2019, another factor has been at play as well: The SARS-CoV-2 virus has driven a huge increase in chronic health consequences, broadly referred to as long COVID. Infection […]

State Sen. Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) is frustrated by the lack of wastewater monitoring for H5N1 bird flu in the state’s most at risk communities: regions of the Central Valley where dairy workers, dairy herds and commercial poultry operations are most concentrated. On Tuesday, she introduced a bill to fix that. Called the Wastewater Surveillance Act,

A new study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the H5N1 bird flu virus is likely circulating undetected in livestock in many parts of the country and may be infecting unaware veterinarians. In the health agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a group of researchers from the CDC, the

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth’s enigmatic inner core, revealing for the first time that this 1,500-mile-wide ball of iron and nickel is changing. The planet’s inner core was previously thought of as a hard, solid sphere. But a new study has found that its edges are softer

California joined 21 Democratic-run states Monday in a lawsuit to stop cuts to billions of dollars in NIH funding that supports medical research, alleging the action will hurt Americans who benefit from life-saving medical discoveries into cancer, diabetes and other major diseases. The suit, filed in federal district court in Massachusetts, asks a judge to

The best and the worst thing about vaccination, pediatrician Dr. Adam Ratner says, is that it “makes nothing happen.” A child successfully inoculated against a vaccine-preventable disease — the measles, let’s say, to name the most infectious of them all — doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital.

In the days leading up to a pivotal vote on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to become America’s top heath official, all eyes were focused on Sen. Bill Cassidy. And the pivotal issue for the Louisiana Republican was Kennedy’s skepticism toward vaccines. Cassidy chairs the Senate committee that oversees the Department of Health and Human

Each year, the National Institutes of Health gives billions of dollars to the University of California to pay for research into cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases it has been at the forefront of studying for decades. But a drastic cut to NIH funding under the Trump administration set to take place

When the fires erupted Jan. 7, burn centers across the Los Angeles region braced for an influx of patients, updating one another on the beds and staff available for critically injured people. The Eaton and Palisades fires would ultimately claim at least 29 lives. Dozens of people would visit hospitals to seek care for minor

San Mateo County public health officials announced Thursday that they’d discovered a pet cat in Half Moon Bay infected with H5N1 bird flu. That comes just two days after they reported finding the virus in a backyard poultry flock in Redwood City. The reports came on the heels of a momentary Centers for Disease Control