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Measles crept into Utah and Arizona in June, with reports trickling into local health departments of patients coming to doctors and saying their children had just recovered from full-body rashes, and parents telling pediatricians that their whole family had just recovered from measles. But because patients would decline testing, there were no official cases in…
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The measles outbreak in South Carolina — the largest the United States has had in decades — has ended, state health officials announced Monday. There were nearly 1,000 confirmed cases over about six months, including at least 21 hospitalizations. No new cases associated with the outbreak have been reported in more than 42 days, the state health department…
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CNN) — One in 31: That’s the estimated number of children identified as having autism spectrum disorder by age 8 in the United States, according to the most recent data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number has been going up for decades. It was around 1 in 150 in 2000, and…
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Lung cancer kills more Americans than any other form of cancer: more than prostate cancer and colon cancer combined, and nearly three times as many as breast cancer. But while pink ribbons are a familiar sight and 4 in 5 women get their recommended mammograms, screening for lung cancer is far less common. It’s often…
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A federal appeals court temporarily reinstated a nationwide requirement that abortion pills be obtained in person, undermining access to the method of abortion that has only grown more widespread since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Friday’s ruling from the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals is a major victory in the anti-abortion movement’s war against…
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Americans still feel lousy about the economy and worry that the US-Israeli war with Iran will continue to push up prices. The University of Michigan’s final consumer sentiment reading for April measured 49.8, a slight improvement from the preliminary report earlier this month but still at the lowest level ever on records that go back to 1952.…
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New York — The Department of Defense announced Friday an agreement with seven major technology companies to use their artificial intelligence tools in its classified networks. Not included: Anthropic, which the Trump administration has blacklisted over Anthropic’s insistence that the Pentagon include certain safety guardrails for the government’s use of AI in warfare. But the White…
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Washington — One word in the Federal Reserve’s lengthy policy statement released this week is causing consternation among its officials, some of whom are warning that it could end up costing the US economy. That word is “additional.” Since the early 2000s, the Fed has signaled if interest rates could increase, decrease or remain unchanged —…
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New York — Markets just had a month of seemingly contradictory results. The S&P 500 just had its best month in nearly six years, even though oil prices have surged back above $100 per barrel and bond yields have climbed. Stocks are forward looking and trying to see past the war with Iran. But energy prices…
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Beijing — A sleek SUV offers mechanical foot massages, a luxury minivan has rotating seats to help passengers hop into its third row – and a surprising proportion of models offer in-car karaoke with professional-grade speakers. Others have headlights that can project movies onto a wall to make anywhere a drive-in cinema. Here, intelligent driving features…