Every morning, Godar's Malai opens dozens of envelopes containing ticks mailed by bite victims. Malai is an entomologist on the lookout for Longhorn ticks, an invasive species that unlike other ticks, can reproduce itself through cloning. The tick is present in at least 21 states and is rapidly spreading across the eastern US.>> Here is a female longhorn tick. As you can see, the body is reddish brown. >> Scientists demolize lab at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station have identified an emerging ...

former surgeon general is criticizing Robert F. Kennedy's decision to cancel nearly $500 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against future viral threats. Jerome Adams, who served during Donald Trump's first term, posted to social media, writing in part, this I've tried to be objective and non- alarmist in response to current HHS actions, but quite frankly, this move is going to cost lives.Other public health experts are also sounding the alarm. The head of the Center for Infectious Disease and Re ...

[Music] Alam alaikum and very good morning everyone. I'm honored to be here and it is my real privilege to welcome you all to my talk. So today I'm going to talk about one of the most important public health issues that occur everywhere but nobody discussed that much that is the kajim.So think about these two rice. They fall in love and get married. Now they want to extend their family member.Sounds good, right. But problem is what I can say you with they the cousin or genetically related or bloodly related ...

[Applause] When I was a kid and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always said an actor. As I got older, that dream shifted to becoming a teacher. Never did I imagine that I would become an addict.Yet here I stand as one of the 46.3% million people in the United States with a substance use disorder. For 20 years, I struggled with addiction, a relentless uphill battle that often felt impossible to win. I tried and failed more times than I could count.And there were times when I thought I w ...

I got a bit of bad news for you, America. The measles is back, reaching a 33-year record high. At least 1,288 cases of the measles have been confirmed across 39 states this year. That's according to the CDC. The bulk of the cases stem from a massive outbreak in West Texas from which two children have died. Now, to put this in perspective, scientists declared measles to have been eliminated in the US in the year 2000. Now what that means is that in the year 2000 no cases of measles infection originated withi ...

It's Monday afternoon and I am meeting Donna for the first time in my busy clinic at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless program. Donna can't sit still. She's twisting her scarf and her hands and she appears to be on the verge of tears as she tells me more about her situation.She had been doing great in a treatment program, but was kicked out over an argument. She's been back in the shelter, and then last night, all of her belongings and medication were stolen from underneath her bunk. This is not at all the ...

If you have ever found yourself tossing and turning and counting sheep unable to sleep, I can tell you from firsthand experience, you are not alone. In her new piece for The Atlantic titled American Insomnia, staff writer Jennifer Senior writes in part, "The cadences of modern life have proved enimical to sleep. For white collar professionals, it's hard to imagine a job without the woodpecker incursions of email or weekend and late night work. It's hard to imagine children assuing social media when it's how ...