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New York state health officials issued a more urgent call on Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of “potential community spread” of the debilitating virus.

Scientific skepticism is a global phenomenon. Social psychology researchers sought to find out why and what we can do about it.

Experts cautioned that much work remains. But they also described new findings as an "exciting" development against a major killer of children in developing countries.

The White House has declared monkeypox a national emergency Thursday and says Jynneos vaccine, used to treat monkeypox, will be administered through intradermal injections.

President Joe Biden announced a response team for the monkeypox outbreak on Tuesday, with top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the CDC serving as the White House coordinators.

A walking crab and a swimming cylinder are among the newest developments in mini robotics, a field pursuing tiny machines that could someday perform medical jobs.

The monkeypox outbreak has led officials in states and cities to declare public health emergencies.

An adhesive wearable has provided steady, targeted ultrasound images for 2 days, potentially changing how we monitor and diagnose.

A potentially deadly bacteria has been found in U.S. soil and water samples for the first time, according to a new alert from the CDC.

Fauci Urges Fight Against Stigma of Monkeypox July 27, 2022 -- Dr. Anthony Fauci remembers the anti-gay stigma that dominated mainstream response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.And now he’s urging leaders to battle similar homophobia around the current monkeypox outbreak.Most of the monkeypox cases in the United States have been between men who have sex with other men.The country must “get rid of anything that even smacks a little bit of stigma” regarding the virus, Fauci told NPR’s “All Things Considered.”Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, was a leader in the fight against HIV and

The U.S. has one of the highest levels of reported monkeypox cases in the world, according to the latest CDC data.

Latest top hospitals list includes new cancer surgery and health equity measures.

Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the U.S. according to federal health officials.

The World Health Organization said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an "extraordinary" situation that now qualifies as a global emergency.

A Medscape poll reveals that they want patients to understand how many challenges they have, as well as how much work they do to take care of patients.

On social media, people are saying Helen Keller was a fraud. Experts said the conspiracy theory shows how little many know about deaf-blindness.

Investigators are now working to determine specifically how the infection happened and whether others were exposed, while health officials have scheduled polio vaccination clinics for Friday and Monday in New York.

As the number of monkeypox cases keeps growing, a discussion has opened on whether it should be considered a sexually transmitted disease (STD) like herpes, gonorrhea, or HIV.

Following the high-profile infant formula shortage and recent rulings on e-cigarettes, the FDA will begin a comprehensive review of its food and tobacco programs.

Health care providers should warn patients about how the heat or sun can affect your body’s response to medications.

Childhood Loneliness Can Lead to Problem Drinking, Study Says July 19, 2022 -- Lonely kids face a heightened risk of alcohol abuse as young adults, a new study says.Greater levels of childhood loneliness were followed by greater stress in early adulthood, and that has been associated with drinking, says the study to be published in the journal Addictive Behaviors Reports.In the Arizona State University research, more than 300 college students were asked to fill out assessments of their loneliness as kids, their current stress levels, and their drinking habits. The assessments showed a link between earlier loneliness

Demand for the monkeypox vaccine in the U.S. is outpacing the nation’s supply as the outbreak grows nationally and globally.

Monkeypox cases are expected to continue to climb in the coming weeks, the CDC says.

A West Virginia woman has woken up from a 2-year coma and identified her brother as her attacker.

Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump has died at the age of 73 of what appears to be an accidental fall.