3+ day, 36+ min ago   (829+ words) New York City published roughly 170,000 pages of records this week documenting what officials knew about air quality around Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. Among them is an internal document, long referenced but never public in full, in which the…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (891+ words) Bangladesh has now recorded 999 suspected and confirmed measles-related deaths since March, most of them young children, in what a Reuters report describes as the world's largest measles outbreak. Only 100 of those deaths have been confirmed by laboratory testing. The rest…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (986+ words) A 10-year-old girl pulled a quarter-zip sweatshirt over her head, and the zipper caught the skin of her left upper eyelid. Her family trimmed the sweatshirt away at home, leaving the zipper and a rim of fabric still clamped to…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (692+ words) A 38-year-old man arrived at a urological emergency department with a metal ring locked at the base of his penis, the shaft above it swollen, congested, and turning blue. He had put the ring on roughly 24 hours earlier, after a…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (965+ words) New York City published roughly 170,000 pages of its own September 11 records on Tuesday, opening a searchable public portal that survivors and first responders spent years suing to obtain. The files cover air quality, health concerns, and the city's response after…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (711+ words) For American readers, the practical stake is narrow but real. Three infections tied to this outbreak have already been treated outside Africa, including two U.S. citizens who were medically evacuated to Germany. Whether that pattern stays rare depends heavily on how…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (974+ words) Twenty-five years after the towers fell, the federal program that treats people exposed to the World Trade Center site certified 10,393 new cancers in a single year. That figure comes from the World Trade Center Health Program's quarterly program summary, published…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (669+ words) The external anatomy looked entirely ordinary. It was only after a dissection team at the University of Birmingham Medical School divided a donated pelvis down the midline that they found what was inside: two additional penile structures, stacked one behind…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (807+ words) The federal safety study of mifepristone that could reshape how the abortion pill is dispensed in the United States has not been completed, and the agency's own public status page describes it as still moving through data analysis and peer…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (803+ words) Two women arrived at the same Ethiopian hospital with problems that could hardly have been more different. One was 26, pregnant for the first time, and bleeding catastrophically into her abdomen at 17 weeks. The other was 50, postmenopausal, and had spent five…...