Tracing a Washington state illness to farms, only to meet a wall
It was 7 a.m. on Independence Day when a doctor told Rose and Roger Porter Jr. that their daughter could die within hours. For nearly...
In a poor Kenyan community, cheap antibiotics fuel deadly drug-resistant infections VIEW
Antibiotics, the miracle drugs credited with saving tens of millions of lives, have never been more accessible to the world’s poor. And poor countries are...
Fungus immune to drugs quietly sweeps the globe VIEW
The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public-health threat: drug-resistant germs.
Altria, maker of Marlboro cigarettes, to pay nearly $13 billion for a stake in Juul
Altria, one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, is spending nearly $13 billion to take a 35 percent stake in the vape company Juul. The...
‘Collateral damage’: Immunotherapy drugs attack cancer but also vital organs
An unleashed immune system can attack healthy, vital organs, notably the bowel, the liver and the lungs, but also the kidneys, the adrenal and pituitary...
Wildfires, once confined to a season, burn earlier and longer
Fires, once largely confined to a single season, have become a constant threat in some places, burning earlier and later in the year, in the...