One of the public health threats close to my heart is the future of vaccines and the emerging measles epidemic. Misinformation has usurped science.

A child in Texas has died from measles, marking the first death from the disease in the United States since 2015.It comes as a measles outbreak is growing in west Texas, with 124 ...

It can cause things like pneumonia, encephalitis, deafness, blindness, or death within weeks ... Having safe, effective, extensively studied vaccines to prevent disease is a cornerstone to a ...

Parents are encouraged to get their children tested for lead poisoning — for free —at clinics offered by the Milwaukee Health Department, Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers and Children’s ...

[Photo by Hari Maharjan/Xinhua] A center established under China-Nepal cooperation to prevent blindness was inaugurated in the Nepali capital on Friday. A set of ophthalmic equipment and ...

National nonprofit Prevent Blindness to hold 14th Annual Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Summit, May 14, 2025, as a free interactive virtual event.

They have a condition known as aphantasia, or “mind blindness”—it’s rare, and only affects about 4 percent of the general population. Researchers have also traced a few acquired ...

This association is being called “Ozempic blindness.” Experts are not entirely clear why this may happen, but they have a theory. For all the buzz surrounding weight loss medications like ...