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"To be silent is to be complicit," the healthcare workers write in an open letter.

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under a microscope, a mosquito can look stunning. Their blue-green iridescent scales, purple bands, and attractive spotted wings shimmer—dazzling enough to forget, for a moment, the insect lives to take a sip of your blood. Mosquitoes range in size, […]

Misleading ads get muted, universal child care is here, a tech company gets caught cheating, and tenants step up.

From The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today, Counterpoint Press. The prosecutor at the Treblinka trials, Alfred Spiess, described his defendants to filmmaker Claude Lanzmann this way: “They weren’t SS men; they came from the euthanasia project, became accustomed to killing, were kept together during the winter of the […]

Sixteen states have bucked new Trump restrictions and allow all residents to receive COVID-19 vaccines, but major pharmacy chains’ websites still say otherwise.

China has an advantage when it comes to making advances in brain implants: a whole government approach that cuts through red tape.

Before universal vaccination for hepatitis B began in 1991, 18,000 children contracted the virus by age 10 each year, and most of them developed chronic illness and liver damage. Vaccination reduced those infections by 95%.

The MMRV vaccine is associated with a 1-in-2,300 chance of seizures, which the panel said was reason to delay until age four.

Online health record giant MyChart just slipped a clause into its terms and conditions barring patients from suing the firm for mishandling their health data.