By: Jacqueline Powers Image: Illustrator: Alissa Eckert On November 10, 2025, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced that Canada has lost its measles elimination
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By: Jacqueline Powers Image by Birdies100; CC BY-SA 2.0 On September 3, 2025, California, Oregon, and Washington announced the West Coast Health Alliance, a partnership
Photo by Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro; CC-BY 2.0 On May 20, 2025, the Pandemic Agreement was adopted by Member States at
Image: Focal Foto, CC BY-NC 2.0 Generic Deed Two years ago, the Supreme Court shocked the nation by overturning Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional
Image courtesy of NIAID and CDC; CC-BY 2.0 DEED The recent rise in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 cases among humans, poultry, and dairy
Image courtesy of Focal Foto; CC-BY-NC 2.0 DEED. On January 24, 2024, Ohio legislatures banned gender-affirming care for minors, overriding Republican Governor Mike De Wine’s
Image courtesy of beachmobjellies; CC-BY-SA 2.0 DEED. The world is being inundated with data: Data is set to grow with a five-year compound annual growth
By: Jacquelin Sauer Image courtesy of Widad Sirkhotte; CC-BY-SA. Noma is a highly infectious, non-contagious bacterial disease that affects 140,000 children each year, yet not
Image courtesy of Alachua County via Public Domain One year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic [1],
In December 2020, the Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator department at Boston Children’s Hospital launched a new health study in collaboration with Google. The Respiratory