A yearlong KFF Health News review of about 17,500 expenditures found that local officials are spending part of the $60 billion fund on items with tenuous ties to addiction.
The Bundibugyo virus has reached eight of Congo's 26 provinces and spread to Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria, with fighting in Ituri and North Kivu blocking health workers.
The CDC says 96% of this year's cases were unvaccinated or of unknown status, and New York's governor has declared a disaster emergency.
The outbreak, centered in Lancaster County's Amish and Mennonite communities, is the worst in the country since 1991. Health Secretary Debra Bogen says the CDC's refusal to acknowledge the deaths 'undermines our response.'
The Bundibugyo virus has reached 62 of 167 health zones in seven provinces four months after it was declared. Africa CDC says a few hot spots in Ituri are finally dipping.
Pennsylvania has logged 676 cases across 37 counties, and fewer than 1% of the patients were fully vaccinated. Nationally, the U.S. has passed 3,000 cases in its worst measles year since 1991.
Smoke from fires in Indonesia pushed readings past the level at which Malaysian law allows an emergency. Sarawak is closing 647 schools for five days starting Monday.
Updated vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer and Sanofi target the XFG variant behind roughly 40% of U.S. cases. Who has to pay for them is the part nobody can answer.
Health Minister Stephanie Rist gave the figure Friday, covering the period through late July. The 2003 summer that shocked France had 22 heatwave days.
Health ministry figures put the toll at 3,007 out of 6,186 confirmed cases across six provinces. Africa CDC believes the real outbreak may be three times larger than what has been counted.
The Juul2 pairs with an app that requires proof of being 21 before the device will work. The agency was careful to say the authorization is not an endorsement.
WatchThe president said infants are getting "vats" of vaccine and should be dosed across five separate visits. The Senate's only practicing physician called the order "wrong" within minutes of the signing.
Jay Bhattacharya said flatly that he trusts the science on measles, DTP and the standard childhood schedule — a message that lands differently coming from an agency under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The state health department reported nine confirmed Vibrio vulnificus infections in 2026, all requiring hospitalization, against a ten-year average of seven cases and one death per year.
Moderna's mFlusiva beat a standard flu shot by 26.6% in a 40,805-person trial. Against hospitalizations and ER visits, the gap was 47.9%.
Dr. Erica Schwartz, a retired Navy rear admiral and former deputy surgeon general, takes over an agency that has gone nearly a year without a Senate-confirmed leader since Susan Monarez was forced out 29 days into the job.
Twenty-five cities were already at the health ministry's maximum warning level this week, with Messina and Reggio Calabria projected to join by Thursday. Nights that never drop below 25°C are what makes this wave dangerous.
The 2026 total has already passed last year's, and 93% of the infections are in people who were never vaccinated. Officials expect the country to lose its measles elimination status this year.
Indiana-based Midwest Poultry Services recalled roughly 1.6 million dozen shell eggs sold at Kroger and Brookshire stores. Twenty-six people have been hospitalized since November.
Georgia State researchers report that the oral antiviral GHP-88310 blocked transmission of a measles-like virus in ferrets when given shortly before or after exposure, and shortened illness in animals already infected.
Regulators approved Takeda's Qdenga for people aged 4 to 60 with no need for pre-vaccination testing, as the country moves to blunt one of the world's heaviest dengue burdens.
Virginia Tech researchers found that the tiniest plastic particles strengthen the bacterial biofilms lining water pipes, shielding potentially harmful microbes from disinfectants.
Air quality alerts stretch from Minnesota to Maine as drifting smoke turns skies yellow and threatens millions with hazardous particulate pollution through Friday.
Cases of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness that causes explosive, weeks-long diarrhea, have already blown past the entire 2025 total, with Michigan hit hardest and no contaminated food yet identified.
New York City health officials have ordered dozens of buildings in Carnegie Hill, Yorkville and Lenox Hill to disinfect cooling towers found to harbor Legionella bacteria, with 22 people hospitalized so far.
More than a dozen states, led by New Jersey, are collecting and incinerating decades-old stockpiles of PFAS-laced foam tied to elevated cancer rates among firefighters — and replacing it with a soybean-based alternative.
The largest cyclospora outbreak in Michigan history has driven the U.S. total past 1,000 confirmed cases, with roughly 40 hospitalizations and investigations underway in 28 other states.
The Bundibugyo strain has now killed more than 500 people across the Democratic Republic of Congo, and frontline responders — dozens of whom have caught the virus themselves — say they will strike over months of unpaid wages.
Atlantic City hit 106 degrees over the July Fourth weekend — the hottest stretch in more than a decade — with tens of millions still under heat alerts.
A sweeping University of Sydney analysis of dozens of conditions concludes that widely prescribed opioids deliver only small, short-lived relief, and sometimes none at all, while carrying real risks.
At least one demonstrator was killed Monday as police used tear gas and live rounds against crowds opposing a 50-bed isolation facility near Nanyuki built for Americans exposed to Ebola.
A rare Bundibugyo strain with no approved vaccine has killed at least 91 people and crossed into Uganda. U.S. modelers warn cases could exceed 20,000 within months.
Climate change and aging water systems are helping resilient free-living amoebae expand their reach, researchers warn — and the organisms can shelter other dangerous microbes inside them.
Mining has been the economic lifeblood of this remote Democratic Republic of Congo community for decades, but now it's accelerating the spread of a deadly virus.
Mining operations that have sustained a hill town for decades are now accelerating the spread of the deadly virus, complicating containment efforts.
Tracking more than 205,000 people across nearly four decades, researchers found the danger isn't the potato — it's the frying. Baked, boiled and mashed showed no added risk.
Despite established procedures for bringing at-risk Americans home, administration has not articulated clear plan as outbreak threatens to become largest on record. Secretary Rubio declares U.S. "cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States."
A judicial ruling prevents the US from relocating Americans exposed to Ebola to detention facilities in Kenya.
A remote gold mining community has become the epicenter of a deadly Ebola surge, with health officials battling to stop the spread of infections and mounting death toll.
An outbreak centered on the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu has killed at least 264 people and crossed into Uganda's capital, while attacks on health workers hamper the response.
The controversial policy breaks with previous practice of treating exposed Americans in state-of-the-art domestic facilities, with some citizens already flown to Europe.
Health officials warn the current Ebola crisis has reached unprecedented scale with rapid transmission across affected regions.
New research identifies potentially dangerous PAH compounds in foods exposed to high-heat cooking methods like grilling, roasting, and frying.
CDC announces plans to block legal permanent residents who traveled to Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan citing limited screening capabilities.
The World Health Organization reports more than 540 cases across Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, with experts warning the true numbers could be much higher.
Health officials report sharp rise to more than 130 suspected deaths since outbreak was first identified, marking significant escalation.
Three deaths and 27 active outbreaks, with Idaho and Montana now showing sustained transmission for more than 12 months — the WHO's threshold for revoking elimination.
Senior Trump-era appointees told FDA scientists their findings had 'messaging concerns,' even as Judge Sara Ellis's March 16 order restoring the old ACIP charter heads to the Seventh Circuit.
Health officials confirm one case was misdiagnosed, reducing the total outbreak count from 11 to 10 confirmed infections.
The outbreak aboard the MV Hondius has raised fears of a pandemic-like spread, evoking memories of Covid-19's devastating impact.
Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg dismissed without explanation as federal health agency faces mounting challenges and leadership questions.
Health experts alarmed that outbreak hadn't been announced sooner as hundreds of infections suspected.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has toned down his public vaccine criticism under White House orders, but inside his department, a sprawling research effort examining vaccine safety remains a top priority.
A Dutch flight attendant and French national are among the latest to be tested as authorities predict 'limited' spread despite the virus's deadly nature.
Government blocked publication of research conflicting with RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine positions as health policy becomes increasingly politicized.
Agency's scientists reviewed millions of patient records for vaccine safety studies that were pulled back before release to the public.
House speaker cites concerns about children attending school without proven vaccines for measles, mumps, polio, and chickenpox.
Health secretary distances himself from anti-vaccine stance while testifying before Congress, speaking on behalf of his department rather than personal beliefs.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declined to commit to supporting CDC Director Erica Schwartz on vaccine policy while denying responsibility for ongoing measles outbreak.
Lawmakers confronted Kennedy with documented CDC messaging rollbacks as the U.S. faces losing its measles elimination status for the first time since 2000.
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