Kate Zernike

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Kate Zernike

Therapies involving mRNA, a key to Covid vaccines, hold great potential in treating several diseases, but some lawmakers want to ban them and the government is cutting funding. To scientists who study it, mRNA is a miracle molecule. The vaccines that harnessed it against Covid saved an estimated 20 million lives, a rapid development that was recognized with a Nobel Prize. Clinical trials show mRNA-based vaccines increasing survival in patients with pancreatic and other deadly cancers.

2 months ago | spokesman.com | Kate Zernike |Emily Cochrane |Isabelle Taft

For months, Dr. Jennifer Avegno, the director of the New Orleans Health Department, has watched the threats come closer: Louisiana led the United States as seasonal flu cases surged to their highest rate in 15 years, and had the nation’s first death from bird flu. Then came a deadly measles outbreak in neighboring Texas. The number of Louisiana schoolchildren with exemptions to vaccine requirements doubled in a year.

2 months ago | es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Kate Zernike |Emily Cochrane |Isabelle Taft

Durante meses, Jennifer Avegno, directora del Departamento de Salud de Nueva Orleans, ha observado cómo se acercan las amenazas: Luisiana se situó a la cabeza de Estados Unidos en cuanto a casos de gripe estacional, alcanzando su tasa más alta en 15 años, y se produjo la primera muerte por gripe aviar en el país. Luego llegó un brote mortal de sarampión en la vecina Texas. En Luisiana, el número de niños en edad escolar que están exentos de vacunarse se duplicó en un año.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Kate Zernike |Emily Cochrane |Isabelle Taft

For months, Dr. Jennifer Avegno, the director of the New Orleans Health Department, has watched the threats come closer: Louisiana led the United States as seasonal flu cases surged to their highest rate in 15 years, and had the nation's first death from bird flu. Then came a deadly measles outbreak in neighboring Texas. The number of Louisiana schoolchildren with exemptions to vaccine requirements doubled in a year.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Kate Zernike

Abortion clinics in the staunchly Republican state of Missouri this week resumed procedures for the first time in years, despite a continued push by conservative state leaders to block a constitutional amendment enshrining abortion rights that voters approved in November. It was a remarkable moment after an extended fight. Missouri was the first state to enact an abortion ban after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.