London Hospital Creates Innovative Outdoor Ward for Critically Ill Patients
A hospital in the United Kingdom has taken a historic step in patient care by introducing an outdoor medical environment to give critically ill patients access to sunlight, greenery and outdoor air.1 King’s College Hospital in south London recently opened a purpose-built rooftop critical care garden directly integrated into its intensive care infrastructure. This facility […]
AI-Fabricated Citations Infiltrating Medical Literature May Influence How Doctors Treat Patients
A first-of-its-kind audit of 2.5 million academic papers, published on May 7, 2026 in The Lancet, has identified more than 4,000 papers containing fake references that could not be traced to real publications. The audit analyzed over 97 million references across 2.5 million academic papers, marking the first academic study to examine the scale of […]
Executive Order Directs CDC to Reduce Number of Recommended Childhood Vaccines
On May 29, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Realigning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations With Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries” endorsing a scientific assessment done earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) calling for a reduction in the number of recommended vaccines for children […]
Scientists Creating mRNA Biologics with Added Aluminum Adjuvant
Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts have developed an experimental mRNA biologic technology that they say produced longer-lasting immune responses in animal studies without the use of additional booster shots. The 2026 study was published in Nature Immunology.1 The research looked at a challenge in mRNA technology on how to make protection last longer […]
Ebola Bundibugyo Vaccines in Development Four Months Before Outbreak
An Ebola outbreak in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was confirmed by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on May 15, 2026. Through laboratory analysis, health officials confirmed that the outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo ebola strain, for which there is no vaccine currently […]
Workers Fired for Refusing COVID Shot Receive $4.25 Million Payout
On May 18, 2026, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that A G Equipment Company, (AG) a compressor packaging manufacturer in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, will pay $4.25 million to 43 former employees to settle a religious and disability discrimination lawsuit.1 2 In the fall of 2021, A G mandated that all employees receive […]