Access to essential medications is at risk. Babies are dying because parents are refusing the vitamin K shot. And homicide and suicide are now the leading causes of death in pregnant women.

The lone star tick is driving the rapid rise of alpha-gal syndrome, a delayed allergy to red meat, and cases may be undercounted. Meanwhile, a new vaccine for Lyme disease faces challenges.

While the early data are impressive, making psychedelic therapy available at scale requires the government to ensure safety and efficacy the way we do for other medications.

Headlines focused instead on doubt. The idea that vaccine skepticism is now the default is itself a public health threat.

Who controls what counts as evidence, and what happens when that control is abused?

What drove this decline? High tobacco taxes and comprehensive smoke-free laws that made smoking expensive to start and disruptive to continue.

Vaccine policy is mired in confusion, states are losing public health funding, and measles is spreading as the Trump administration struggles to find a new CDC director.

New research shows that even a single course of antibiotics may disturb the body. Dentists may be over-prescribing antibiotics. And there's a shortage of one of our oldest antibiotics: penicillin.

As the size of ICE detention facilities grows, so do the risks of Legionella bacteria and measles, mumps and tuberculosis outbreaks. Hospitals are also falling short of infectious disease prevention.

Government officials must be rigorous stewards of the public’s money. But when it comes to programs that people's lives depend on, the bar for suspending funding should be extremely high.