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A group of mothers and children receive free milk from a Health Station on Madison Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Where did U.S. public health go wrong?

Eric Coles - Undark
Child holding a small plant (Getty Images/lovelyday12)

How plant biology mirrors our own

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Elton John at the Variety TIFF Studio during the Toronto International Film Festival 2024 on September 7, 2024 in Toronto, Canada. (Michelle Quance/Variety via Getty Images)

Elton John criticizes Trump's USAID cuts

Nardos Haile
A pharmacist packs HIV self-test kits at a community center operated by LoveYourself, a nonprofit impacted by the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid, on February 19, 2025 in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

HIV/AIDS treatment needs federal support

Jesse Milan, Stephen Lee
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in front of the Federal Prison Medical Center in Lexington Kentucky. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No evidence drug farms treat addiction

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
Pro-choice protesters march outside the Texas State Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Austin, TX. Texas passed SB8 which effectively bans nearly all abortions and it went into effect Sept. 1. A request to the Supreme Court to block the bill went unanswered and the Court still has yet to take any action on it. (Sergio Flores For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Sepsis rates soar after Tx. abortion ban

Lizzie Presser, Andrea Suozzo, Sophie Chou, Kavitha Surana - ProPublica
Doctors examine an x-ray of a patient who has tuberculosis (Najlah Feanny/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why we're still fighting tuberculosis

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) (Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The world’s most charismatic mushroom

Niko Vorobyov
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The examination room in A Woman's Choice of Jacksonville clinic, which provides abortion care on April 30, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

True impact of abortion bans on society

Allison Carmen
Young woman shopping in a supermarket (Getty Images/B2M Productions)

Food scientists on ultra-processed panic

Ashlie D. Stevens
A teddy bear sits in a therapy chair in front of a child suffering from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). (Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Behind $2 million per dose gene therapy

Robin Fields - ProPublica
Cat watching a small bird (Getty Images/zmijak)

House cats with bird flu could pose risk

Sarah Boden - KFF Health News
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Executive director of Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research uses a stereo scope to examine a sediment sample to identify microplastics within a sample in Long Beach on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Microplastics in brains are accumulating

Matthew Rozsa
Nutritional label (Getty Images/Imagesbybarbara)

New changes to nutrition labels

Zahra Saghafi - The Conversation
ATLANTA, GA - OCTOBER 05: A podium with the logo for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the Tom Harkin Global Communications Center on October 5, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. The first confirmed Ebola virus patient in the United States was staying with family members at The Ivy Apartment complex before being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. State and local officials are working with federal officials to monitor other individuals that had contact with the confirmed patient. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

CDC ordered to pull gender studies

Nicole Karlis
The Aedes mosquito is a known vector for several viruses, including West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, dengue virus, chikungunya virus, and Zika virus. (Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Zika makes human skin "mosquito magnet"

Nicole Karlis
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Sad woman with smart phone (Getty Images/D-Keine)

Seeking abortion care? Be data cautious

Nicole Karlis
Center for Disese Control (CDC) lab technicians conducting virus research in 1952. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Trump admin stalling bird flu studies

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
Towana Looney, 53, who received a gene-edited pig kidney undergoes medical testing at NYU Langone Health on December 11, 2024 in New York. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Pig organ transplantee passes milestone

Matthew Rozsa
Pouring water from bottle (Getty Images/RunPhoto)

The drawbacks of drinking "raw water"

Bill Sullivan - The Conversation
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A view of the sign of Center for Disease Control headquarters is seen in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on August 06, 2022. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is bird flu info threatened under Trump?

Nicole Karlis
Wegovy, an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Semaglutide: a "wonder drug" with risks

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Donald Trump | World Health Organization sign (Salon/Getty Images)

Trump signs executive order for WHO exit

Nicole Karlis
Cyclist drinking from a water bottle (Getty Images/Justin Paget)

What do electrolytes do for your body?

Bryn Beeder - The Conversation
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