Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
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In the wake of measles cases at a Broward school, Florida's surgeon general writes that the Department of Health “is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance” without urging the need for MMR vaccinations.
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Thousands of people are still dying with COVID, but the federal government has mostly handed over responsibility to the people to weather the seasonal surges with their own strategies.
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Public health initiatives have long been divisive, but the pandemic turned up the volume to painful levels in Florida, Texas and other states amid a surge of growing mistrust of scientific institutions.
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Flu, COVID, and respiratory viruses kill thousands of Americans each year, but the latest batch of vaccines could save lives.
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Clinicians, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines on face masks from the CDC might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals.
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The emergency response mechanisms that supported earlier vaccine campaigns are gone. As one expert wonders: How do we get boosters to people beyond Democrats, college graduates, and those with high incomes?
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Some African countries have long witnessed mysterious outbreaks of paralysis. Affected regions are poor and conflict-ridden, where people's main food is a bitter, poisonous variety of cassava.
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Mustafa Alnour Alhassan is 26. He's dying of mycetoma, a flesh-eating fungal infection. It can be treated — but in poor countries treatment is not readily available.
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He's a doctor, an imam and a millennial. His ideas about fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone are part of the reason that, this week, the three countries at the center of the epidemic reported no new cases.
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Dr. Nahid Bhadelia volunteered to help fight Ebola in the African nation. When she learned that many of the nurses there didn't always receive a salary, she sprang into action via crowdfunding.