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The Aaron Rodgers Bowl? While Matt LaFleur downplays that storyline, these Packers defensive players can’t wait to share the same field with ‘one of the GOATs’ on Sunday night  Channel 3000 Matt LaFleur: Week 8 is about Packers-Steelers not Aaron Rodgers’ first game vs. Green Bay  NFL.com Packers at Steelers: Predictions, picks and odds for NFL Week 8 game  USA Today Here’s how …

This micrograph image depicts a gastrointestinal bacteria that can become pathogenic after trauma, surgery or other disruptions. Smith Collection/Gado/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Smith Collection/Gado/via Getty Images One of the pillars of modern medicine is showing its cracks, according to a new report from the World Health Organization. Antibiotics have turned once deadly infections into minor inconveniences. They …

Insecticide-treated bed nets keep mosquitoes from biting at night, but what how do you protect babies when they’re out and about? One researcher had an idea that involved the traditional bab-carrying wrap used in sub-Saharan Africa. Jeffrey Davis/Tetra images RF/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeffrey Davis/Tetra images RF/via Getty Images Babies may soon join soldiers in the fight …

Dr. Tsion Firew at her home in Kigali, Rwanda, on Oct. 3. A year ago, Rwanda announced the country’s first Marburg outbreak — a deadly virus that’s a cousin to Ebola. Firew, who is chair of emergency medicine at Africa Health Sciences University in Rwanda, was afraid for herself and her kids. She sent them away, updated her life insurance …

Researchers say that with ongoing malnutrition crises in many countries, they expect to see more cases of Type 5 diabetes emerging. Pictured here is a patient receiving a blood glucose test for diabetes in a door-to-door screening program in India’s Haryana state. Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg/via Getty Images In the early 1950s, British physician …

On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. Jr. said “The United States will walk away from the declaration [on noncommunicable diseases], but we will never walk away from the world or our commitment to end chronic disease.” Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Alison Cox was in the room on Thursday when U.S. …

Dr. Boris Todurov, left, performed heart transplant surgery on his patient, 12-year-old Kira Skilarova, second from right, during a Russian attack on Kyiv on July 9. Kira received her heart from a 4-year-ld girl who died earlier that evening at a hospital across the city. Also pictured are the heart donor’s mother, second from left, and Kira’s mom, far right. …

In 2022, a sign in Miami, Fla., promotes “monkeypox vaccination.” That same year, the World Health Organization changed the name of the virus to “mpox,” since the animals that transmit it to humans are rodents and small mammals, not monkeys, and because of the stigma carried by the term “monkey.” Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images …

Pneumonia struck first. Then tonsillitis spiraled into sepsis. Malaria battered him next, and after treatment, the other illnesses flared back up again. This unvaccinated 2-year-old boy is trapped in a relentless cycle. “I was very sad. I knew these things could be prevented by vaccines,” his mother Alzhraa Fadul says through an interpreter. “I feel guilty that I can’t do …

A vial of lenacapavir, the new HIV prevention injectable drug that only needs to be administered twice yearly but provides almost complete protection. Nardus Engelbrecht/AP hide caption toggle caption Nardus Engelbrecht/AP The U.S. announced Thursday that it will make an investment in the new HIV prevention drug called lenacapavir that’s been hailed as a “breakthrough” and a “game changer” by …