Instructions for a Measles vaccination is seen outside of the Lubbock Public Health facility on April 09, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America Katherine Wells has been an epidemiologist working to protect the public from disease outbreaks for 25 years. Until January,Continue Reading
A measles advisory is shown tacked to a bulletin board outside Gaines County Courthouse on April 09, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there have been 1,001 confirmed measles cases in the U.S. thisContinue Reading
Hello! I’m Catherine, a relationships reporter at The Times, and I’m filling in for my colleague Jancee Dunn this week — which has been an exciting one for those of us on the Well team. On Wednesday, we hosted the first-ever Well Festival in Brooklyn, which brought together some ofContinue Reading
On June 1, the Army will adopt new fitness standards for soldiers in combat roles. Many of the updates to the test are relatively minor, though the minimum requirement in some events, like the two-mile run, will change more substantially. The most significant shift is that the new standards willContinue Reading
The Food and Drug Administration approved the United States’ first at-home cervical cancer screening tool on Friday, a decision that stands to give women an accessible alternative to Pap smears, which many find painful or traumatic. The new test, made by Teal Health, involves swabbing the vagina with a spongelikeContinue Reading
Means has undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University, but her Oregon medical license is currently inactive. Ben Curtis/AP Ben Curtis/AP President Trump’s new pick for U.S. surgeon general could have a bumpy road to confirmation as she faces pushback on multiple fronts — not least from figures within theContinue Reading
Spencer Hospital CEO Brenda Tiefenthaler (second from left) vows to maintain the facility’s mental health services, with help from behavioral health services director Kerri Dandy (left), nursing director Jen Dau (third from left) and outreach navigator Jill Barr. Tony Leys/KFF Health News Tony Leys/KFF Health News SPENCER, Iowa — ThisContinue Reading
Michael Beach, former deputy director of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases at CDC, attends a weekly protest outside the agency’s main campus in Atlanta. Pien Huang/NPR Pien Huang/NPR Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta are reeling, after losing thousands of their colleaguesContinue Reading
A study recruited Black and Latina women and asked them to log all the beauty products they use in a week. More than half of the women used products with known carcinogens. puhhha/iStockphoto/Getty Images puhhha/iStockphoto/Getty Images More than half of Black and Latina women in Los Angeles who participated inContinue Reading
President Trump said on Wednesday that he would nominate Casey Means, a Stanford-educated doctor turned critic of corporate influence on medicine and health, as surgeon general. Dr. Means, an ally of the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has described becoming disillusioned by establishment medicine. She rose to prominence lastContinue Reading
