MEDICINE & HEALTH

New Study Finds Los Angeles Wildfire Smoke Linked to Heart Attacks and Lung Damage

MEDICINE & HEALTH 06.02.2026 12:01 PM

Los Angeles has once again been blanketed in hazardous wildfire smoke, with the South Coast Air Quality Management District issuing a broad smoke advisory on May 19, 2026, covering Los Angeles, Ventura, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties.

H5N1 Bird Flu Lurked in Houston Wastewater — And Nobody Told the Public

06.02.2026 11:53 AM

A landmark scientific discovery that flew largely under the public radar has resurfaced as one of the most consequential early-warning moments in recent pandemic preparedness history: researchers at UTHealth Houston and Baylor College of Medicine detected the H5N1 avian influenza virus in the wastewater of ten Texas cities simultaneously.

Seven Papers from One Issue, All Retracted. What the Peer Review Shortage Means for Medical Research

06.02.2026 04:31 AM

Nephrologist and journal reviewer Mariia Dolinna, MD, PhD, on why the people who evaluate manuscripts matter as much as those who write them

Dengue Resurgence Intensifies Across Florida and Gulf Coast as Cases Rise Into 2026

06.01.2026 13:16 PM

Public-health surveillance data entering June 2026 indicate that dengue fever remains an expanding concern across parts of the southern United States, particularly in Florida and Gulf Coast states.

Measles Transmission Persists Across Texas Into Summer 2026 Amid Ongoing Outbreaks

06.01.2026 13:08 PM

Texas remains one of the key states driving the national measles resurgence as infections continue to circulate into late May 2026.

What Is the Science & Psychology Behind Ketamine Addiction, Detoxing, & Recovery?

06.01.2026 05:46 AM

So, when a person experiences ketamine addiction, then goes through the detoxing process before moving into the recovery phase, what's happening from a scientific and psychological perspective? Here's a primer on the points of interest and how they play out in a typical case.

Houston Confronts a Grim Season Opener: Texas Confirms First West Nile Neuroinvasive Case of 2026 — and Mosquito Country Is Just Warming Up

05.30.2026 07:57 AM

Harris County has recorded Texas' first confirmed human case of West Nile virus for 2026, and the classification of that case as the disease's most dangerous and neurologically devastating form is raising alarm bells among public health officials well before the peak of mosquito season has even arrived.

Ebola at America's Front Door: Federal Screeners Now Stationed at O'Hare, JFK, and LAX Amid Deadly Central African Outbreak

05.30.2026 07:44 AM

For the first time in more than a decade, federal health officials have deployed Ebola screening teams at major American airports as a deadly outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola ravages the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan.

America's Measles Catastrophe Deepens: Nearly 2,000 Cases in 2026 and Counting — Is the U.S. About to Lose Its Elimination Status?

05.30.2026 07:18 AM

The United States is careening toward a public health milestone it never wanted to reach. As of May 21, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 1,952 measles cases nationwide.

Valley Fever Is Breaking Records in Arizona — And Scientists Say Climate Change Is Expanding Its Range Across the American Southwest

05.28.2026 20:59 PM

For most Americans, Valley Fever is either unknown or easily dismissed as a regional desert curiosity unlikely to cause serious harm. That assumption is increasingly dangerous. Arizona reported nearly 15,000 cases of coccidioidomycosis — the scientific name for Valley Fever.

America Is Losing Its 25-Year Measles-Free Status — And the FIFA World Cup Is Coming to Philadelphia and New York

05.28.2026 20:31 PM

In November 2000, the Pan American Health Organization declared that the United States had eliminated measles. Twenty-five years later, that achievement is on the verge of being formally revoked, and the timing could not be worse: the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off June 11 across 16 American cities.

New York City's Tuberculosis Crisis Is Not Over — And 2025 Data Reveals Exactly Why

05.28.2026 20:01 PM

On March 24, 2026 — World Tuberculosis Day — the New York City Health Department released data confirming 743 TB cases in New York City in 2025.

The Norovirus Variant That Stumps Hand Sanitizer Is Surging Through Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago — And Your Kitchen Sponge May Be Part of the Problem

05.27.2026 10:50 AM

A new GII.17 subvariant has driven norovirus to decade-high levels across major U.S. cities. With 45% higher wastewater concentrations than last November and 1,194 outbreaks already this season, the CDC's 'winter vomiting bug' is proving it has no respect for the calendar.

1,952 Measles Cases and Counting: America's Two Biggest Cities Are No Longer Just Bystanders

05.27.2026 10:46 AM

With 40 jurisdictions reporting confirmed infections and 29 active outbreaks in 2026, New York City and Los Angeles are now confirmed hotspots — and the U.S. faces losing its measles elimination status for the first time in 25 years.

West Nile Is Back in Texas — And This Time It's Already Neuroinvasive

05.27.2026 10:41 AM

Houston's Harris County records the state's first human case of 2026. Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth mosquito pools are positive. No vaccine exists. Mosquito season has barely started.

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