Sunday, February 22, 2026

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Emerging Health Issues

Could A Rare, Deadly ‘Superbug’ Fungus Be Gaining A Foothold?

(By David Thill, Medill News Service for Kaiser Health News) The number of U.S. patients infected with a rare but

(By Sharon Begley for STAT) What the scientists had was a lab version of The Dog That Didn’t Bark —

(By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review) Drug stores and pharmacy chains nationwide are experiencing spot shortages of Tamiflu and

(By Howard Berkes and Adelina Lancianese for NPR) Epidemiologists at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health say they’ve

According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 53 children who have died of the flu

(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) Two major reports issued Friday by federal scientists found that there was some evidence the type of

(By Sharon Begley for STAT) It might seem that scientists have never met a chunk of DNA they couldn’t edit in mice

(By Helen Branswell for STAT) As the country battles an especially fierce flu season, experts have struggled to explain why

(By Sharon Begley for STAT) There have been mice and cows and pigs and camels, bunnies and bantengs and ferrets

(By Karen Weintraub for NPR) Even three queasy pregnancies didn’t prepare Kate Murphy for the nonstop nausea that often comes