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When the Trump administration announced in February 2025 that it was cutting 10% of staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it seemed that a small but storied program within it called the Epidemic Intelligence Service—also known as the CDC’s disease detectives—would also be cut. A few days later, the program was reinstated. And in March, Epidemic Intelligence Service officers traveled to Texas to support the state’s public health officials in fighting the ongoing measles epidemic.

The increasing trend of reducing foreign aid to Africa is forcing the continent to reassess its approach to health care delivery.

Tapping a pen, shaking a leg, twirling hair—we have all been in a classroom, meeting, or a public place where we find ourselves or someone else engaging in repetitive behavior—a type of self-stimulatory movement also known as stimming. For people with autism, stimming can include movements like flicking fingers or rocking back and forth. These actions are believed to be used to deal with overwhelming sensory environments, regulate emotions, or express joy, but stimming is not well understood.

Adults could one day grow their own replacement teeth instead of having fillings—as scientists make a key discovery. This research offers a potential way to repair teeth and a natural dental treatment alternative.

Imagine nearly every seat in Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center—more than 20,000 seats—are empty. That’s the scale of Pennsylvania’s projected shortfall of registered nurses by 2026, according to the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.

Makeli Phiri IT is interesting that ducks are not so popular in the poultry industry in Zambia. If any, very few people keep or rear ducks. And yet duck meat is healthier than chicken meat. Our belief is that ducks are dirty because most of the times they are found wallowing in muddy water and […]

Robots are roaming the hallways at El Camino Health, helping to deliver medications and take samples to the laboratory. They are among the new technologies implemented to improve efficiency while allowing clinicians to focus on patient care.

Is sauerkraut more than just a tangy topping? A new University of California, Davis, study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology suggests that the fermented cabbage could help protect your gut, which is an essential part of overall health, supporting digestion and protecting against illness.

The combination of a targeted oral medication with light therapy may enhance repigmentation for patients living with nonsegmental vitiligo, a team of researchers led by Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, Ph.D., Waldman Professor and System Chair of the Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, reports.

Have you ever been so laser-focused on a task—playing a video game, reading an engrossing book, and so on—that when you look up, hours have suddenly gone by? This is commonly referred to as flow state: a state of absorbed concentration and a distorted sense of time. Studies have shown that working in the flow state has a positive impact on happiness and productivity.