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Medical Marijuana Is Off Limits To Truckers And Pilots Despite Trump Administration's Reclassification
staff@jalopnik.com (Logan K. Carter), Jalopnik
Weed is not an FDA-approved drug, thus it is not permitted to show up on drug tests for employees in safety sensitive transportation roles.
May 31, 2026, 7:25 PM
WHO Chief Says 5 Patients In Africa’s Ebola Outbreak Have Recovered (Live Updates)
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/, Forbes
There have been more than 220 suspected deaths since the start of the Ebola outbreak.
May 31, 2026, 1:40 PM
WATCH: Special roadside delivery in Oklahoma
ABC News, Abcnews.com
Shelbee Dugger-Kemp's Memorial Day weekend delivery was the early arrival of twins.
May 31, 2026, 1:54 AM
WATCH: Mysterious loud booms shake East Coast
ABC News, Abcnews.com
The mysterious loud booms were heard, over the past several days, from New England to South Carolina.
May 31, 2026, 1:53 AM
WHO Chief Visits Bunia—Epicenter Of Africa’s Ebola Outbreak (Live Updates)
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/, Forbes
There have been more than 220 suspected deaths since the start of the Ebola outbreak.
May 30, 2026, 2:15 PM
Ebola shows how Trump’s health policies are going global — and coming home
Russell Payne, Salon
Politicized public health agencies also make it harder to hold officials accountable
May 30, 2026, 10:45 AM
Fear and self-doping in Las Vegas: My trip to the first-ever Enhanced Games
Tekendra Parmar, Business Insider
Inside the juiced-up, techno-billionaire-invented steroid Olympics fever dream.
May 29, 2026, 8:13 AM
Ebola can be stopped — but only if world leaders prioritize public health
Nature.com
The deadly disease was identified half a century ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is unacceptable that it continues to take lives.
May 29, 2026, 12:00 AM
'Out of control': Doctors on the front line of Ebola outbreak speak out
Tom Soufi Burridge, Dragana Jovanovic, Aicha El Hammar Castano, Sarah Baniak, Abcnews.com
Doctors at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo told ABC News that the deadly virus is still spreading at an alarming rate.
May 28, 2026, 3:33 PM
Why the US won’t treat Ebola patients at home | The Excerpt
Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, USA Today
US keeps Ebola cases abroad as outbreak grows in Africa. Experts question travel policy, funding gaps and readiness for a deadly spread.
May 28, 2026, 1:29 PM
Out Of Control RFK Jr. Fires Leaders Of Preventative Services Task Force
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
Alright, this is getting dire. In addition to all of the anti-vaxxer bullshit that has infected HHS thanks to RFK Jr.’s appointment to run the department, we have also made the point recently that an equally big problem is the talent drain occurring at HHS as…
May 28, 2026, 3:07 AM
Aid cuts and climate change drive deadly malaria surge in Zimbabwe
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
A surge in malaria cases in Zimbabwe is exposing fragile health systems and growing treatment shortages in rural areas.
May 28, 2026, 2:18 AM
NASA’s Jared Isaacman unveiled the first moon base rovers and landers
Dan Vergano, Scientific American
At an event at NASA Headquarters event, space agency officials unveiled the first rovers and landers headed to the future site of its planned lunar south pole outpost
May 27, 2026, 4:30 PM
A Discrepancy in Who Gets Diabetes During Pregnancy
Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic
One group is an outlier for gestational-diabetes risk, and no one can yet say why.
May 27, 2026, 12:00 PM
Raising many questions, Grandpa Pudding Brains says he's "studied" circumcision for a long time
Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing
America's ongoing experiment in handing microphones to cranks took another turn when RFK Jr. floated the thoroughly debunked claim that early circumcision doubles autism risk, prompting Donald Trump to claim expertise on the matter as only he can: "I've studi…
May 27, 2026, 12:27 AM
Quarantine sentences to ponder, that was then this is now edition…
Tyler Cowen, Marginalrevolution.com
Trump administration officials, confronted by overlapping outbreaks of Ebola and the hantavirus, have taken a more aggressive approach to locking down potentially exposed people than in past outbreaks, surprising many public health experts… Dr. Jay Bhattachar…
May 26, 2026, 5:53 PM
Doctor evacuated from Congo feels ‘helpless’ watching colleagues die of Ebola
Lauren Weber, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post, Yahoo Entertainment
Murmurs of a “casket disease” had already begun by mid-May, as patients began to die in waves. Patrick LaRochelle, an American missionary physician, was 20...
May 26, 2026, 2:46 PM
African Health Officials On Ebola: ‘This Is Too Much’ (Live Updates)
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/, Forbes
Several treatment centers have been destroyed and tensions are rising in Congo, the center of the Ebola outbreak.
May 25, 2026, 7:58 PM
2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update
Joe Gellatly, Medcurity.com
What the 2026 HIPAA Security Rule actually changes — finalization status, real OCR enforcement signals, and the operational checklist healthcare IT teams need now.
May 25, 2026, 1:55 PM
WATCH: College athlete's wisdom tooth surgery led to leukemia diagnosis
ABC News, Abcnews.com
"GMA" shares the story of a 21-year-old college volleyball player whose routine wisdom tooth extraction uncovered a shocking leukemia diagnosis.
May 25, 2026, 12:39 PM
The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA
Nature.com
Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study finds that conservatives in the USA experienced worse health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. No significant gaps in biomarkers or mortality were present before the 2010s.
May 24, 2026, 7:36 PM
How Prepared Are We for a Public-Health Emergency?
Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker
Dhruv Khullar on how the recent outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola expose the shortsightedness of the United States’ retreat, under the Trump Administration, from its role as a global-health leader.
May 24, 2026, 10:00 AM
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 23)
SingularityHub Staff, Singularity Hub
Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 23) appeared first on SingularityHub.
May 23, 2026, 2:00 PM
Ebola Outbreak: Three New Cases Reported In Uganda As Outbreak Kills 177
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/, Forbes
One American who contracted Ebola is receiving treatment in Germany.
May 23, 2026, 1:54 PM