Healthcare Part of White House Plan for Preventing Gun Violence
WASHINGTON — Connecting people likely to commit gun violence to physical and behavioral healthcare is part of the Biden administration’s gun violence prevention strategy, the White House announced Wednesday. “You will have heard President Biden, again and again, call the nation’s attention to what he has said is a public health epidemic: gun violence,” a […]
I Co-Discovered HIV. Here Are Lessons to Help Prepare for the Next Threat.
Science progresses when people share what they learn, not when they retreat behind borders or institutions. That was true when my colleagues and I first discovered a protein, known today as interleukin-2, which enabled growth of human T cells in the laboratory, leading to our breakthrough discovery of the first human retrovirus, HTLV-1, a cause […]
84 People Now Sickened in E. Coli Outbreak Tied to Wendy’s Restaurant Lettuce
Latest Infectious Disease News FRIDAY, Aug 26, 2022 – – A total of 84 people across four states have now been made ill by E. coli, in an outbreak possibly tied to contaminated lettuce used in sandwiches sold at Wendy’s restaurants. “Since the last update on August 19, 2022, 47 more illnesses have been reported […]
This HIV Expert Refused to Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC
John Weiser, MD, MPH, has treated people with HIV since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. He joined the CDC’s HIV prevention team in 2011 to help lead its Medical Monitoring Project, the only in-depth survey of HIV across the U.S. The project has shaped the country’s response to the epidemic over […]
Dan Kraker
Meet Dan Kraker Dan Kraker is an MPR News reporter based in Duluth where he covers the people, economy and environment of northeast Minnesota. Before joining MPR News, Dan worked at KNAU Arizona Public Radio for 11 years, first as a reporter covering northern Arizona’s Native nations and then as news director. He also contributes […]
Health Insider Protecting kids in extreme heat: Phoenix ER physician describes signs, symptoms Jamie Warren
Nearly 3,000 people in Arizona have been hospitalized with signs of heat-related illness so far this year, according to data from the Arizona Department of Health Services. At least 145 of those cases involved children 17 and younger. With summer temperatures soaring, ABC15 asked Jaron Smith, a physician at Phoenix Children’s, how to best make […]
ID Experts Pan Trump Order Calling for Forced Hospitalization of Homeless People
President Trump’s recent executive order encouraging involuntary commitment of people with mental illness who are homeless provoked a swift response from infectious disease experts, who warned that such moves could disrupt care for conditions ranging from HIV to hepatitis C in already vulnerable communities. The order — entitled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” […]
Insomnia Plus Obstructive Sleep Apnea Adds Up to ‘Uniquely Complex’ Combo
People with insomnia and concomitant obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) represented a fairly common, medically complex group for whom current approaches may be suboptimal, according to one study. Nationally representative data tallied over 1.07 million Americans with insomnia alone, over 1.27 million with OSA alone, and over 157,000 with comorbid insomnia and OSA, so-called “COMISA.” Results […]
Eating an array of smaller fish could be nutrient-dense solution to overfishing
To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller portions of fish. The right combination of certain species can provide up to 60% more nutrients than if someone ate the same quantity of even […]
Good news for people with migraine who take drugs before or during pregnancy
There’s good news for people with migraine who take common drugs before or during pregnancy — a new study found no increase in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD in their children. The study, which looked at drugs used for migraine attacks called triptans, is published on May 21, 2025, online in Neurology®, the […]