The United States added another 194 measles cases to its total this week, with the nation’s largest outbreak, in Pennsylvania, showing no signs of slowing down.
America’s public health system is at an inflection point. Decades of chronic underinvestment, compounded by workforce reductions, funding disruptions, and institutional uncertainty during 2025 and 2026, have weakened the system’s capacity to protect communities from preventable disease and injury.
None of the major world religions oppose vaccines, yet thousands of Americans claim that immunizations conflict with their faith.
A mother in New York State who claims to oppose vaccines because of her Catholic faith lost an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) this week—though Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have granted her application. For now, the woman’s kindergarten-aged son must be vaccinated to attend school.
Argonne researchers study the movement of dust particles from concrete surfaces during a simulated radiological contamination scenario, measuring how pedestrians and moving cars affect the spread of the particles.
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