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02/26/2025 - Unequal impacts of abortion bans, preventing dementia, and the first U.S. measles death since 2015

02/19/2025 - Measles outbreaks in the Southwest, coal dust plagues a Baltimore neighborhood, and a breakdown of microplastics

02/12/2025 - An intense flu season, possible disruptions to lifesaving PrEP, and a judge’s ruling on CDC web content

02/05/2025 - The CDC website, a TB outbreak in Kansas, and a hypothetical WHO exit/outbreak scenario

01/29/2025 - RFK Jr. hearings put vaccines, and disinformation, front and center in Congress; Trumpʼs latest executive orders; and the alcohol-cancer connection

01/22/2025 - Trump’s health policy blitz; “alert but not alarm” for H5N1; and a vaccine roundtable on Capitol Hill

01/17/2025 - Special Issue: When was the last time you checked your hearing?

01/15/2025 - Bidenʼs big wins for public health, pulse oximeters are often not tested on a range of skin tones, and bird flu raises red flags

01/08/2025 - A death from H5N1, LA wildfires, and time to schedule those health appointments

12/18/2024 - 2024’s public health progress and setbacks

12/11/2024 - The rise in cases of pediatric walking pneumonia

12/04/2024 - How public health works in uncertain times

11/27/2024 - The fight for a swimmable harbor in Baltimore

11/20/2024 - Common-sense gun laws are popular—why don’t they pass?

11/13/2024 - How to process strong post-election emotions

11/06/2024 - Uncharted territory

10/30/2024 - Big Tobacco appropriates Día de los Muertos

10/23/2024 - Pollution, asthma, and viruses are all byproducts of industrial food animal production

10/16/2024 - RSV drugs and vaccines for infants, pregnant people, and older adults

10/09/2024 - On the ballot next month: health insurance, preventing pandemics, and the CDC