First Locally Acquired Dengue Case Prompts Public Health Investigation

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating the first case of locally acquired dengue for the 2025 mosquito season in a resident of the San Gabriel Valley. The person reported no history of travel to areas where dengue is...

How menopause restructures a woman’s brain

Some evidence suggests a partial recovery of gray matter volume postmenopause, potentially reflecting compensatory neuroplastic processes. Additionally, elevated estrogen receptor density during the menopause transition may represent an adaptive...

Hundreds of Kaiser Permanente health care workers on Maui go on strike, forcing temporary closure of Kīhei clinic

Kaiser workers march the picket line in front of the Maui Lani clinic on Oct. 14, 2025, the first day of a 5-day strike as negotiations over their contract drag on. HJI / COLLEEN UECHI photo WAILUKU — Every day, Robert Kikuchi and three other...

Puerto Rico Is Stepping Up Its Sargassum Fight

Puerto Rico is stepping up its fight against Sargassum. A record-breaking 40 million metric tons of the seaweed flowed through the tropical Atlantic this year, overwhelming shorelines across the region and hitting Puerto Rico’s coasts especially...

Fulton epidemiologist calls measles containment a ‘public health win’ after weeks of tracing contacts

Public health workers spent about 200 extra work hours to track down 268 people who might’ve been exposed to measles in recent weeks in an outbreak that began with an unvaccinated Georgia State University student, Fulton County health officials...

Sarah Ferguson's desperate pleas for cash from Epstein revealed amid mounting debts and lavish spending

Dubbed the 'Duchess of Excess', Sarah Ferguson's insatiable quest for cash once led to her accepting a loan of £15,000 from prolific paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Then, just days ago it was revealed by the Mail on Sunday that Sarah had been secretly...

“Puerto Rico is an Expensive Place to Live”: Study Reveals Current Cost of Living on the Island

A study conducted by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics revealed a cost of living 2.5% higher than the average of other urban areas in the United States, ranking 72nd out of 281. The index, which calculates the cost of goods and services and...

Gobernadora de Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González Colón, ‘no es bienvenida’ en Chicago

Los líderes y organizaciones de la comunidad puertorriqueña de Chicago expresaron su oposición a la visita de la gobernadora de Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González Colón, en una declaración publicada en Instagram el viernes 3 de octubre por la...

Trump’s Shutdown Threatens Our Food, Water, and Health

The harms of Trump’s shutdown are far-reaching. Republicans must end it with a bipartisan “No Kings” spending bill. Trump and Congressional Republicans have driven us headfirst into a government shutdown. This shutdown has paused essential safe...

The day the Ponce de Leon crashed at Glenmary

You’re reading “Echoes in Time,” a weekly newsletter by the Independent Herald that focuses on stories of years gone by in order to paint a portrait of Scott County and its people. “Echoes in Time” is one of six weekly newsletters published by the...

Genetic Landscape of VIP Pharmacogenomic Variants in the Kinh Vietnamese Population

Introduction Drug-response of a patient is influenced by different physiological factors, in which genetic predepositions have been reported to have association with the metabolism and immunological response of a medicine.1–3 Pharmacogenomics is...

Puerto Rico Projecting $10.4M Boost, 27,000 Extra Room Nights from Hosting World Baseball Classic Qualifiers

Puerto Rico is set to take center stage in the world of sports next spring. Governor Jenniffer González Colón and Puerto Rico Tourism Company Executive Director Willianette Robles Cancel shared new details this week about the island’s role as host...

Manufacturing Sector Has Great Reshoring Opportunity in Puerto Rico

The manufacturing industry in Puerto Rico has a great opportunity to attract companies through reshoring thanks to the policies of President Donald Trump's administration. The industry, which represents 43% of the Gross Domestic Product and is...

Georgia Today: CDC layoffs; Government shutdown affects Georgia Tech; Georgia hospitals using AI

TRANSCRIPT: Peter Biello: Welcome to the Georgia Today podcast. Here we bring you the latest reports from the GPB newsroom. On today's episode, about 600 people have been laid off from the CDC. Georgia Tech feels the pain of the government...

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ABSTRACT Health care and outcomes in Puerto Rico (PR) have been impacted by US federal policies, including those pertaining to the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. The MA enrollment rate in the US mainland is 54%, but in PR, it is more than 90%....

Deficits and Arbitrary Decisions Plague Puerto Rico’s Catastrophic Illness Fund

At just 12 years old, Ian M. Ayala Martínez has undergone five surgeries on his right ankle and leg, procedures that have been grueling for him. He has faced each one with courage, supported by his mother, whose only wish is for her son to live...

Responding to Tropical Storm Melissa, Oxygen Needs in West Africa, and More

By Tori Gordon Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 573 shipments of requested medical aid to 49 U.S. states and territories and 16 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 6.2 million defined daily doses of medication. Medications...

Tropical Storm Melissa is stationary in the Caribbean as 4 deaths reported and huge rains are expected

This NOAA satellite image taken at 11:40 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, shows Tropical Storm Melissa in the Central Caribbean Sea. (NOAA via AP) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tropical Storm Melissa was nearly stationary in the central Caribbean on...

Mount basketball: Knights open Nov. 7, will play twice in Puerto Rico

Mount Saint Mary women's basketball is going to get a taste of Puerto Rico ahead of the Christmas holiday. The Knights will take on the University of Redlands, from California, on December 17 and upstate Alfred University on Dec. 18 in the D3...

MAGA in disarray as cracks begin to show over key GOP weaknesses — including Epstein

“The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement.” Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political...