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ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo’s campaign against COVID-19 vaccines has intensified in the past few weeks before Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crucial tests in the Iowa presidential caucuses and New Hampshire primary. And experts say that’s not a coincidence. “It’s one thing for a large state’s leading health officer to be an advocate for shared values,” said Kenneth Goodman, the director of the University of Miami Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy. “It’s another to weaponize medical misinformation to trick citizens into voting for his boss.” Ladapo called for a complete halt ......

PHILADELPHIA — Every year, Katalin Karikó met with her University of Pennsylvania department chair to update him on her quest to treat disease with messenger RNA — fragile, inflammatory genetic molecules that were so difficult to work with that most scientists thought it was a waste of time. Every year, he listened to her passionate description of the science for a few minutes, then chastised her for not contributing to the department’s all-important metric: “dollars per net square footage” of lab space. The bottom line: Penn had rejected Karikó for a tenure-track position years earlier becaus......

Chemicals that can make people sick have recently been found in fish, crabs and oysters in South Carolina as concerns grow about the threat the toxins pose to food and water across the Palmetto State. The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control documented the pollutants, known as forever chemicals, in freshwater fish caught in 18 waterways from the foothills to the coast. In some cases, the pollutants were found at high levels, state data show. All told, more than a dozen species contained forever chemicals, and many fish tested came from some of South Carolina’s most popular spots......

For one of the world’s best-known opera stars, Renée Fleming has sure popped up in some expected places. The soaring soprano is the only classical singer to perform the national anthem at the Super Bowl (in 2014, where Seattle clobbered Denver). She has sung on movie soundtracks from “Piglet’s Big Movie” to “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” And she has been a long-time advocate for the arts and health, particularly in how music can help people heal. That led her to sing in an MRI machine a few years ago, so the National Institutes of Health could study her brain waves. One more thing. T......

While sweltering heat in prisons without air conditioning has long been an issue in the South, extreme heat waves worsened by climate change are expanding the problem into Northern states. In recent years, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin have seen extreme heat in prisons. Many of these states lack the necessary infrastructure for ventilation or cooling systems capable of managing extreme heat. “This is not at all an issue that’s confined to what we all think of as the hot states,” David Fathi, director of the ACLU National Prison Project, said in an interview with S......

DETROIT — When Sara Moughni filled out the race and ethnicity questions on the SAT a couple years ago, her choices were the usual, including White, African American, Asian, American Indian or "other." She begrudgingly chose "other." Moughni, who lives in Dearborn Heights, went on to write a scholarship essay about her inability to check a box that aligns with her identity as an Arab American. Her family emigrated from Lebanon to Michigan in the 1970s. She noted it's not just the SAT, the college entrance exam. Moughni doesn't see herself reflected on any number of government, school or health ......