Whooping cough cases are surging and most adults are not protected
Cases have quadrupled compared to this time last year and declining vaccination rates are driving the increase across the country. Whooping cough is making a return that public health officials had hoped to avoid. The highly contagious bacterial infection, known medically as pertussis, has surged to roughly 16,375 reported cases […]
Sleep deprivation — the powerful steps that can transform your nights starting today
Sleep deprivation is quietly undermining the health of millions of Americans, and Black adults are consistently bearing the heaviest burden of this growing crisis. While poor sleep has long been dismissed as a personal inconvenience, mounting evidence now frames it as a serious public health concern, particularly within communities already navigating deep health disparities. Federal […]
Obesity and overweight crisis keeps getting worse
The numbers tell a stark story. One in eight people worldwide now live with obesity, and the rate has more than doubled among adults since 1990. What was once framed as a problem tied to wealthier nations has become a global pattern, touching nearly every country and crossing every income level. How obesity is measured […]
Heart disease in the United States costs billions yearly
Heart disease has held its place at the top of America’s mortality statistics for decades, and the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show little sign of that changing. The condition remains the leading cause of death for men, women and people across most racial and ethnic groups in the country. […]
Shigella infections are growing and drug resistance is why
Shigella has been making people sick for thousands of years. Reports of the violent diarrheal illness it causes appear in ancient records, and the bacterium itself was formally identified in 1897 during a devastating outbreak in Japan that killed 20,000 people in just six months. The scientist who isolated it, Dr. Kiyoshi Shiga, gave the […]
Understanding how mosquitoes are adapting to your repellent
or decades, DEET has been the most trusted name in mosquito repellent. It worked, it was widely available, and the explanation for why was straightforward enough. Mosquitoes found the smell unpleasant, and so they stayed away. A new study out of Virginia Tech suggests that explanation was incomplete, and that at least one mosquito species […]
Overview of what WHO says communities need beyond treatment
When Ebola or Marburg strikes a community, the immediate concern is containment. But the disruption those outbreaks leave behind runs much deeper than the number of confirmed cases. Jobs disappear. Schools close. Food supply chains break down. Families caring for the sick face social exclusion long after the outbreak is declared over. A new guidance […]
Lung cancer screening in India and the AI tools changing it
Lung cancer kills more people globally than any other cancer, accounting for 1.8 million deaths each year. In India, the situation is particularly grim. The country recorded 81,742 new lung cancer cases in 2022 and 75,031 deaths in the same year. The survival rate sits at approximately 5%, compared to roughly 20% in Western nations. […]
Impact of lifestyle on health
The World Health Organization estimates that 60% of the factors tied to individual health and quality of life are connected to lifestyle. That is not a small number. It places the weight of health outcomes squarely on the patterns people build and repeat across years, from what they eat to how they sleep to how […]
What Is Salmonella?
Salmonella is one of the most prevalent and most underestimated health threats in the modern food environment. A group of bacteria responsible for more than a million infections in the United States every year, it causes an illness that ranges from a few uncomfortable days of digestive distress to a serious medical emergency requiring hospitalization. […]