Month: March 2025

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Welcome back to Earth: Say goodbye to blurry eyes, puffy faces, ‘chicken legs’ and a little extra height

Down to their very DNA, astronauts’ bodies can change in weird and sometimes significant ways, particularly during a long flight high above the Earth: They start to elongate, often developing a taller “space height” and because human bodies are mostly liquid, redistribution of fluids may also give them “chicken legs” and a “puffy head.” Once […]

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As bird flu continues to spread, Trump administration sidelines key pandemic preparedness office

The Trump administration has not staffed an office established by Congress to prepare the nation for future pandemics, according to three sources familiar with the situation. The White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy was established by Congress in 2022 in response to mistakes that led to a flat-footed response to the Covid-19 […]

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What to know about hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

Officials said Friday that Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Academy Award-winning actor Gene Hackman, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome last month in the couple’s home in New Mexico. Hantavirus can infect humans through contact with rodents – most commonly through the deer mouse in the United States – especially when exposed to their urine, droppings […]

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Trump’s pick to lead FDA tells senators he’d look into food, abortion pill, vaccine advisers

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Food and Drug Administration told senators in a tense confirmation hearing Thursday that, if confirmed as FDA commissioner, he plans to evaluate school lunches, the abortion pill mifepristone and agency advisory committees. Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and researcher at Johns Hopkins University, has long called for […]

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Inside the perfect storm of the deadly measles outbreak in Texas

Gaines County is a vast, flat expanse far in the west of Texas: more than 1,500 square miles of sparsely populated farmland. And right now, this is the epicenter of a measles outbreak the likes of which this state hasn’t seen in more than 30 years. Many here say the virus has spread quickly among […]

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Instead of vaccines, RFK Jr. focuses on unconventional measles treatments, driving worries about misinformation

As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, the response from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has leaned heavily on treatment with vitamin A, as well as “good results” from the use of the steroid budesonide, the antibiotic clarithromycin and cod liver oil. Doctors say that this messaging […]