Archive for September 2025

Since they debuted in 2023, the preventatives—a vaccine for pregnant people and an antibody shot for newborns—have reduced hospitalizations of the youngest babies by up to half…. Although the infant mortality rate is low, respiratory syncytial virus is the leading cause of hospitalization among infants in the U.S., with newborns up to the age of two months being at the highest risk, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly 60,000 to 80,000 children under age five are hospitalized with RSV every year in the U.S., and an estimated 100 to 300 children in that age group die annually.

The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation has found.

The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) and 387 national, state, and local organizations signed on to a letter urging Congress to continue its nearly 30-year bipartisan commitment to fully fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), one of the nation’s largest federal nutrition programs, for fiscal year (FY) 2026.

The lawsuit alleges that trustees exhibited a pattern of illegally using the closed-door portions of their regularly scheduled meetings to hide “matters of grave public concern.” Clemens also accused trustees of conducting deliberations “without proper notice or public access” and of using auto-deleting messaging apps such as Signal “to evade records retention and public inspection.”

At a high-level side event held today on the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (above), urged governments, civil society, and private sector partners to intensify efforts to prevent suicide and expand access to mental health care across the Americas.

Psychogeographical Guide to Paris: Discourse on the Passions of Love