Public Health

New diagnostic techniques can pick up these brain injuries and ensure people get help

A serious bird flu infection in Canada, a troubling projection of future plastic waste and dispatches from a global climate convention.

Federal health scientists voice concern over an anticipated takeover by medical skeptics in Trump’s second administration

Wastewater in several Californian cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, recently tested positive for bird flu. But understanding disease risk and exposure to humans isn’t so straightforward

Antimicrobial resistance could claim 39 million lives by 2050, yet the pipeline for new antibiotics is drying up. U.S. policymakers can help fix it

A Biden administration proposal that would require employers to provide cooling measures under extreme heat conditions may be scuttled by the incoming Trump administration

Humans and pigs could both serve as mixing vessels for a bird flu–seasonal flu hybrid, posing a risk of wider spread

The 2024 presidential election will have enormous consequences for the climate, and the health and future of children

If the influenza virus infecting cattle workers starts a pandemic, help in the form of a vaccine is months away

A new United Nations expert study of the effects of nuclear war would spur informed and inclusive global debate on what nuclear war means for people and the planet today

We cover a 3.26-billion-year-old meteorite impact, the spread of bird flu and a scurvy case study that serves as a cautionary tale in this week’s news roundup.

A potable water shortage and a toxic stew of sewage and other pollutants that Hurricane Helene’s flooding left behind have prompted a race to avert a public health crisis in North Carolina