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The mosquito-borne disease is sweeping through a province in southern China, which is taking strict measures to quash the outbreak.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law to increase the amount of minimum sick days for workers from three days to five. -
Thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers began a three-day strike Wednesday in what their union says in the largest action of its type in U.S. history. -
One of this year's MacArthur fellows — the so-called 'genius grant' — the artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is inspired by her family's African roots, her Cuban childhood and modern American life. -
When COVID-19 first emerged, Linsey Marr suspected right away it spread through the air. Time has proved this aerosols engineer right. Now she's being honored with a MacArthur "genius grant." -
A physician decided to stop talking to patients about weight, and focus on health instead. But the new weight-loss drugs forced her to rethink how to help patients without feeding into stigma. -
In the largest health care strike in U.S. history, over 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. walked off the job on Wednesday morning. -
L.A. is housing more people than ever, but an even greater number keep falling into homelessness. This first-of-its-kind prevention program calculates who seems most at risk for landing on the street. -
The outbreaks hit an industry struggling from an electricity crisis. One expert said three recent bird flu outbreaks have caused losses of at least $25 million to South Africa's poultry industry. -
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.Tedros, says he used to "dream of the day when we would have a ... vaccine against malaria. Now, we have two." -
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers have been awarded $9.5 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop better cybersecurity for health care systems.
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