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The Anti-Vax Movement’s Wildest Claim Yet: Polio Wasn’t So Bad

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Even in the house of horrors that is vaccine-preventable illnesses, polio stands out as particularly terrifying. Before the rollout of the vaccine in the 1950s, the disease paralyzed or killed more than 500,000 people worldwide every year. The disease was especially catastrophic for children, some of whom were confined for years to wheelchairs or a […]

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Federal Cash for Lead Pipe Replacement Isn’t Making It to Illinois Communities

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This story, a partnership between Grist, Inside Climate News, and Chicago-area public radio station WBEZ, is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Lead pipes are ubiquitous. At this point, no state has gotten rid of all of its toxic lead service lines, which pipe drinking water to homes and businesses. But some cities like Chicago, New York […]

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This Invasive Disease-Carrier Is Showing Up in Places It Really Shouldn’t Be

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.  Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like Tim Moore, district manager of a mosquito control district […]

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This Invasive Disease Carrier Is Showing Up in Places It Really Shouldn’t Be

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.  Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like Tim Moore, district manager of a mosquito control district […]

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What Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Mean for Two Podcasters With Down Syndrome

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In late April, podcasters Audrey Presby and Jeremy Fraser decided to venture out of their studio in California to head to Washington, DC. It was not the most joyous occasion: Presby and Fraser, both of whom have Down syndrome, were there to plead with House representatives not to vote to pass the sweeping health care […]

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The Many Problems With the FDA’s Big Menopause Announcement

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On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services made an announcement that it promised would change the lives of millions of American women for the better: Hormone replacement therapy, the combination of hormone drugs that can treat the symptoms of menopause, was about to be depathologized. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had decided […]

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Amid Destroyed Health System, Gaza Sees Severe Outbreak of Autoimmune Disorder

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Guillain-Barré syndrome could be a manageable disease anywhere with proper treatment — but not in Gaza.

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“I Was Contaminated”: New Study Reveals Widespread Pesticide Exposure

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Khoji Wesselius has noticed the oily scent of pesticides during spraying periods when the wind has blown through his tiny farming village in a rural corner of the Netherlands. Now, after volunteering in an experiment to count […]

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Food Allergy Rates Are Falling. That’s a Problem for RFK Jr.’s Aluminum Vaccine Theory.

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Last week, the New York Times reported a rare bright spot in public health: The number of children who suffer from potentially life-threatening food allergies has declined sharply since the government changed its guidelines around early exposure to products containing common allergens such as peanuts. Federal guidelines had long recommended that parents avoid feeding babies […]

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Want Fluoride in Your Water? Too Bad.

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the evening of June 2, 2025, the city council meeting in Pasco, Washington, was winding down when Councilor Leo Perales piped up from his seat on the wood-trimmed dais. “I know we’ve talked about fluoride a few times,” […]

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Staffers Fear a Southern Planned Parenthood Faces a “Dangerous Threat From Within”

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To hear former Planned Parenthood Southeast staffers tell it, the alarm bells started going off in the summer of 2024. The latest CEO had just been ousted, and the organization needed a seasoned reproductive rights advocate to lead it through a period of unprecedented political and institutional upheaval. Instead, Mairo Akposé, the new interim chief […]

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