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What You Should Know About the RSV Vaccines 04/21/2024 08:00pm • When it comes to seasonal viruses, you're probably concerned about the flu and COVID. On the other hand, the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV for short, may not be on your radar. But it should be. Here's what you need to know about RSV and the vaccines. What Is RSV?RSV is a common respiratory vir 'Civil War' might be the year's most explosive movie. Alex Garland thinks it's just reporting 04/17/2024 02:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Garland’s films have vividly conjured a virus-caused pandemic (2002's “28 Days Later”), an uncontrollable artificial intelligence (2014’s “Ex Machina”) and, in his latest, “Civil War,” a near-future America in the throes of all-out warfare. Most filmmakers with 6 Major Health Screenings You Need Now 04/16/2024 08:00pm • Preventing health emergenciesRoutine screenings allow physicians to compare test results over time, increasing the chances that a potential problem can be prevented. The good news is that most health plans must cover a set of preventive services -- like shots and screening tests -- at no cost to you Editorial Roundup: United States 04/16/2024 07:08pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 12 The New York Times on aid to Israel The suffering of civilians in Gaza — tens of thousands dead, many of them children; hundreds of thousands homeless, many at risk of starvation — has become more than a growing number of Biden administration announces new partnership with 50 countries to stifle future pandemics 04/16/2024 04:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak that suddenly halted normal life around the globe in 2020. U.S. government officials will offer support in the Bird flu is spreading to more farm animals. Are milk and eggs safe? 04/13/2024 12:39pm • A bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows has grown to affect more than two dozen herds in eight states, just weeks after the nation's largest egg producer found the virus in its chickens. Health officials stress that the risk to the public is low and that the U.S. food supply remains safe and stable. Dead whale in New Jersey had a fractured skull among numerous injuries, experts find 04/12/2024 02:53pm • LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A post-mortem examination of a whale that washed ashore on New Jersey's Long Beach Island found that the animal had sustained numerous blunt force injuries including a fractured skull and vertebrae. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center on Friday released observations US measles cases are up in 2024. What's driving the increase? 04/11/2024 05:41pm • Measles outbreaks in the U.S. and abroad are raising health experts' concern about the preventable, once-common childhood virus. One of the world's most contagious diseases, measles can lead to potentially serious complications. The best defense, according to experts? Get vaccinated. Here's wh Maryland puts restrictions on dairy cow farms to prevent the arrival of avian flu in the state 04/11/2024 04:26am • As avian flu cases among dairy cows are reported in several states, Maryland is taking action to prevent it from spreading into the state. The Maryland Department of Agriculture has issued an order restricting the movement of dairy cows from affected states. “The concern about movement of cattl Dengue fever outbreak in Argentina leads to shortage of a must-have item: mosquito repellent 04/09/2024 03:29pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Shelves have gone empty, as residents hunt in vain and resort to DIY alternatives. And surging resale prices are shocking even to Argentines accustomed to triple-digit inflation. The country’s latest crisis: There isn’t enough mosquito repellent. As the South Am The 7 Best Cybersecurity Stocks to Buy Now 04/07/2024 08:00pm • Over the last 25 years, the cybersecurity industry has grown from virtual obscurity into one of the most important and fastest-growing industries in the world. In the early 1990s, cybersecurity was in its infancy. The internet -- then known as the World Wide Web -- had not yet been fully adopted as William Contreras hits 2 home runs, Willy Adames also homers as Brewers beat Mariners 12-4 04/07/2024 06:13pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — William Contreras hit two home runs, Willy Adames also homered and the Milwaukee Brewers pounded the Seattle Mariners 12-4 on Sunday. Contreras finished with four hits and five RBIs. He hit his first homer off Seattle starter Emerson Hancock (1-1) in the second inning and connecte These Palestinian mothers in Gaza gave birth Oct. 7. Their babies have known only war 04/07/2024 03:45am • NUSEIRAT, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rockets streaked through the morning sky in Gaza on Oct. 7 as Amal Al-Taweel hurried to the hospital in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp, already in labor. After a difficult birth, she and her husband, Mustafa, finally got to hold Ali, the child they spent three years t Police arrest 22 in EU raids linked to suspected theft of Italy's pandemic funds worth $650 million 04/04/2024 09:49am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Police in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia arrested 22 people Thursday as part of an investigation into the suspected siphoning of hundreds millions of euros in post-pandemic relief funds from the European Union. The 600 million euros ($650 million) were part of Italy's post-pa Mexico's likely next president is a scientist. Politics has her mostly quiet on climate threats 04/04/2024 09:43am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — The López home kept filling with seawater as the Gulf of Mexico rose and winter storms got worse. Cristina López and her family decided to leave after one bad storm in November, knowing the ocean would eventually devour their home in the fishing town of El Bosque. “There wa