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us health 5 4h ago 3 min read

CDC Report Finds ER Visits for Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome Jumped 16% After New Diagnosis Code Took Effect

A CDC report released Thursday, August 6, found emergency room visits for cannabis hyperemesis syndrome rose 16% between October 2025 and May 2026. The spike lines up almost exactly with a new diagnosis code introduced October 1, 2025, meaning doctors probably weren't creating new cases, they were finally naming ones that already existed.

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us health 3 5h ago 3 min read

RFK Jr's Food Pyramid Ideas: What the Evidence Actually Backs and What It Doesn't

A medical review from Acibadem Hospitals Group's international health team breaks down RFK Jr-style food pyramid claims and finds a mixed bag: cutting ultra-processed food and pushing whole foods lines up with real science, but not every claim holds up to clinical scrutiny. Common sense here: eat real food, question the miracle-cure hype, and don't let a public figure replace your doctor.

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us health 5 6h ago 3 min read

Sikorsky S-64 Firefighting Helicopter Crashes Battling Utah's Widemouth 2 Fire, Two Aboard Unaccounted For

A Sikorsky S-64 helicopter dropping water on Utah's Widemouth 2 fire crashed Friday near Richfield, sparking a new fire that has kept rescuers from reaching the site. The two people aboard have not been accounted for, and the FAA and NTSB are investigating.

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us health 5 6h ago 3 min read

Senate Confirms Mark Cruz to Lead Indian Health Service After 18-Month Vacancy

The Senate confirmed Mark Cruz, a Klamath Tribes citizen and RFK Jr. aide, as Indian Health Service director on a 51-47 party-line vote. He fills a job that sat vacant or under acting leadership since January 2025, taking over an agency that serves 2.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives while facing chronic staffing shortages and budget uncertainty.

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us health 7 8h ago 4 min read

Flesh-Eating Screwworm Cases in Mexico Top 2,300 as Parasite Spreads North

A parasite eradicated from Mexico in 2003 is back, and human infections are climbing fast, an academic study puts confirmed cases at 204 with six deaths between April 2025 and March 2026, while CDC data show Mexico and Central America now report over 2,360 human cases total. The bug has already reached the US in cattle. This is a border and agriculture problem the government let fester for two years before it started biting.

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us health 8 8h ago 4 min read

White House Drafts Executive Order Reviving Debunked Vaccine-Autism Link

The White House is drafting an executive order on childhood vaccines and autism, according to Bloomberg and The Washington Post, with the order possibly landing as soon as next week. The science here isn't murky. Dozens of large studies covering millions of kids worldwide have found no link, and this is a political move driven by Trump, not new evidence.

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us health 6 9h ago 4 min read

New York Reading Scores Collapse: Half of Grade 3-8 Students Can't Read at Grade Level

Preliminary 2025-26 state test data shows reading proficiency across New York fell 5 points, with third and fifth graders dropping roughly 14 points each. New York City, home to 40% of the state's students, saw scores sink 6 points, wiping out most of last year's gains, even though the city spends about $44,000 per student.

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us health 5 11h ago 3 min read

England's Adult Obesity Rate Doubled Since 1993, Despite 14 Government Strategies

New King's Fund analysis finds 30% of English adults were obese in 2024, up from 15% in 1993, meaning 7 million more obese adults than three decades ago. Fourteen separate government obesity strategies failed to move the needle, and the sharpest rise is among 16-to-24-year-olds.

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us health 7 12h ago 3 min read

Cyclospora Outbreak Hits 47 States, Exposes Cracks in FDA Food Safety System

A cyclospora outbreak that started in mid-May has sickened tens of thousands of people across 47 states, and it's still not resolved. Experts say the problem isn't one bad batch of produce, it's a food safety system split between too many agencies with too little funding to actually catch this stuff before it spreads.

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us health 6 12h ago 3 min read

UT Austin Study: COVID-19 Can Wake Up Dormant Herpes Family Viruses, Worsening Illness

A University of Texas at Austin study found nearly half of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had a dormant virus, like Epstein-Barr, reactivate during their illness, including in people with no prior health problems. Those patients got sicker, stayed hospitalized longer, and died more often, giving researchers a new lead on what's driving long COVID.

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fr health 7 13h ago 4 min read

Wildfires Burn Across Serbia, Greece and France as Europe's Heat Wave Kills at Least Five

Serbia is fighting multiple wildfires including a 300-hectare blaze in a protected nature reserve, while Greece mourns four firefighters and helicopter crew killed battling fires near Athens and Crete. Extreme heat has pushed 25 of 27 major Italian cities to red alert, and the pattern keeps repeating every summer without anyone in Brussels or national capitals fixing the underlying forest management problem.

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gb health 7 14h ago 4 min read

Sex Offender Freed on Bail Multiple Times Killed Two Women. Met Police Admits Her Death Was Preventable.

Simon Levy was convicted at the Old Bailey of murdering two women and raping a third after London's Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police and the Crown Prosecution Service repeatedly let him walk free despite a known history of sexual violence. Police have called it a collective system failure. This wasn't one bad call. It was years of them.

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us health 6 18h ago 4 min read

Small Trial Finds Experimental Shigella Vaccine 89% Effective, Researchers Report in The Lancet

A 108-person challenge trial run by Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Emory's Hope Clinic found a swallowable vaccine called WRSs2 blocked 89% of shigellosis cases when volunteers were deliberately exposed. Shigella kills mostly children under 5 in poor countries, and there's still no approved vaccine, but this result is the strongest efficacy signal researchers have seen for the disease.

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us health 3 19h ago 3 min read

American Evacuated From McMurdo Station in Antarctic Winter Now Being Treated at Christchurch Hospital

The Australian air crew that flew a Skytraders A319 into total midwinter darkness to evacuate an American from McMurdo Station on July 31 says the patient is still receiving treatment at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand. Neither U.S. nor New Zealand health officials will confirm the patient's condition or say if they remain hospitalized.

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us health 3 20h ago 4 min read

Fourth Rabbit Fever Case Confirmed in Suffolk County, One Linked to Cat Bite

Suffolk County health officials confirmed a fourth tularemia case this year, this one reportedly tied to a cat bite in Riverhead rather than a direct tick bite. The disease is rare, treatable with antibiotics, and doesn't spread person to person, but it's popping up more often on Long Island than it used to.

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us health 4 21h ago 4 min read

Turpin Survivor Tells Ohio's Rescued 16 Children: Healing Is 'Definitely Possible'

Julissa Turpin, rescued from her own parents' California torture house in 2018, is speaking publicly about the 16 children pulled from a filthy Ohio property in Vinton County. A forensic interviewer who worked both cases says the Ohio children will likely be split up in foster care, not kept together.

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us health 4 1d ago 3 min read

Zombie-Ant Fungus Found Living in Moss, Not Just Insect Hosts

A new DNA study in the journal IMA Fungus found the same Cordyceps fungus that turns ants into zombies also lives inside surrounding mosses. Researchers say this could be a second life stage the fungus uses to survive when insect hosts are scarce.

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us health 4 1d ago 3 min read

West Nile Positive Mosquito Pools in NYC Nearly Double Last Year's Count, No Human Cases Reported Yet

612 mosquito pools across New York City tested positive for West Nile virus as of July 25, roughly double last year's tally at the same point, according to the NYC Health Department. Zero human cases have been confirmed so far this season, and city crews say targeted spraying already cut infected mosquito pools by more than 85% in treated areas.

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us health 5 1d ago 3 min read

Orange County School District Halts Pesticide Use After Ladera Ranch Cancer Cluster Concerns

Capistrano Unified School District imposed a 60-day pause on landscape pesticides and herbicides after Ladera Ranch parents reported at least nine cases of Ewing sarcoma among children tied to the community since 2007. No environmental cause has been confirmed, but two families lost children to the rare cancer this year, and residents want real testing, not just a pause.

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kp health 5 1d ago 2 min read

Nearly 30% of North Korean Defectors from Nuclear Test Site Region Carry Radiation-Linked Chromosome Mutations, South Korean Study Finds

A South Korean Unification Ministry study of 59 defectors from areas near North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site found about 30 percent had chromosomal mutations tied to radiation exposure. It's the fifth such study, following earlier ones in 2017, 2018, 2023, and 2024, and the results line up with prior findings, even though no direct access to the site exists to confirm the cause.

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