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Pig organ transplants moved from science fiction to FDA-approved trials in roughly 3 years. The infection risk that worried researchers 30 years ago still has no precise number attached to it. Those 2 facts need to be in the same sentence more often.
By Vera Santos · 3 min read
Antibiotic-resistant infections killed 1.27 million people in 2019. Cancer killed roughly 10 million. The gap is real, and anyone collapsing it is misreading the data. But resistance rose in over 40% of monitored pathogen-antibiotic combinations between 2018 and 2023, and the broken economics of antibiotic development mean we are watching a slow catastrophe with the wrong urgency.
By Dr. Alex Chen · 3 min read
Australia recorded 60 measles cases since January 2025, with 8 showing no known exposure source. The country eliminated measles in 2014. What changed was not the virus; second-dose coverage dropped to 89.5%, just below the threshold where herd immunity holds.
By Dr. Alex Chen · 3 min read