Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical Records

The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, and their families. A brief notice from the Office of Personnel Management

How Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse Could Roar Back on RFK Jr.’s Watch

The availability of safe, effective covid vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year history of vaccination, seemingly heralding an age of protection

Ancient DNA finally solves the mystery of the world’s first pandemic

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — the world’s first recorded pandemic — in the Eastern Mediterranean, where