When a measles outbreak hit West Texas this year, school absences surged to levels far beyond the number of children who ...

A recent measles outbreak in West Texas triggered a dramatic surge in school absences, far exceeding the number of children ...

Cumberland County was among half a dozen counties that confirmed cases of measles this year. Pennsylvania has no major ...

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In his first year as the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made an immediate impact on Texas with his Make America Healthy Again movement, inspiring bipartisan legislation that warns ...

On a typical busy day at the Seminole Family Medical Clinic in Seminole, Texas (population, 7386), Leila Myrick, MD, PhD — who’d moved to the rural town 5 years earlier after graduating from Emory ...

The United States may be on track to lose its measles elimination status for the first time in 25 years as health officials confirm that two major U.S. outbreaks are linked to the same measles strain.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) confirmed on November 10, 2025, that the Americas have officially lost their status as a region free of endemic measles transmission, raising serious ...

ADDISON, TEXAS Leila Myrick, MD, PhD, of Seminole, was awarded the Texas Academy of Family Physicians Public Health Award during TAFP’s Annual Session and Primary Care Summit in Addison on Nov. 15.