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Imperial Valley, CA - September 25: A boat sits high on the shore of Desert Shores next to the shrinking Salton Sea in the Imperial Valley. Some are concerned that the Imperial Irrigation District's water-saving program is worsening the decline of the Salton Sea and contributing to lung-damaging dust. Photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Many Imperial Valley farmers are voluntarily participating in a multimillion dollar Colorado River deal in which the federal government that is paying farmers in the Imperial Valley to leave their hay fields dry during part of the year in exchange for payments. The agreement has recently become controversial because the Sierra Club has sued the irrigation district, saying it has failed to address the effects of the water reduction on the shrinking Salton Sea, which is fed by farm runoff. The shrinking of the sea is leading to more dust in the area, which poses a health threat and has been linked to high asthma rates among children in the area. Some residents are concerned about the shrinking of the Salton Sea. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Salton Sea is emitting foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide gas, triggering health concerns

Emissions of hydrogen sulfide raise health concerns in communities near California’s largest lake, researchers say.

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The coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, shown in purple, infects a cell, colored in green.

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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: Guests attend an event introducing a new Make America Healthy Again Commission report in the East Room of the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. The commission, which is tasked with studying the potential causes for the "childhood chronic disease crisis," recommends reassessing the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule, scrutinizing ultra-processed foods and studying pesticides used in commercial farming. The Trump administration has proposed a FY2026 budget of $94 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services -- a reduction of about 26-percent from the 2025 level -- cutting programs and staff at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

U.S. just radically changed its COVID vaccine recommendations: How will it affect you?

EAGLE ROCK, CA - SEPTEMBER 14: Pharmacist Aaron Sun administers new vaccine COMIRNATY® (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) by Pfizer, to Jimmy Smagula at CVS Pharmacy in Eagle Rock, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A new COVID subvariant spreads rapidly as Trump pivots away from vaccines

FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. On Tuesday, July 2, 2024, the U.S. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Trump administration cancels $766-million Moderna contract to fight pandemic flu

FILE - A sign is seen outside of Seminole Hospital District offering measles testing, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Amid measles outbreak, Texas is poised to make vaccine exemptions for kids easier

FILE - A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Kennedy says COVID vaccines no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women

American Minister of Health, Robert Kennedy Jr, delivers a statement on a video about the historic agreement on how to combat future pandemics, aimed at avoiding a repeat of the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis, during the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP)

WHO adopts a ‘pandemic agreement’ after the chaos of COVID

FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed on Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump officials set new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children

FILE - Former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks testifies during a hearing, May 11, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP, File)

Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.

Los Angeles, CA - March 25: Dr. Neville Anderson, left, helps to hold Iris Behnam, 4, while nurse Breanna Kirby, right, gives her DTap Polio and MMR Chickenpox (Varicilla) vaccinations while her mom, Haley Behnam, holds and comforts her at Larchmont Pediatrics in Los Angeles Tuesday, March 25, 2025. At the popular Larchmont Pediatrics, Dr. Neville Anderson requires all infants to begin their routine vaccinations by the three month visit. Parents who refuse receive a letter in the mail stating that they have 30 days to find a new doctor. "If a parent is truly anti-vax and does not want to vaccinate their child, our values and our goals and our beliefs are so antithetical to each other that we're not a good team," said Anderson. "I'm not the right doctor for them, and they're not the right patient for me." Larchmont only dismisses 1-4 patients each year, she said, since most anti-vaccine families know their reputation and tend to go elsewhere. For some patients, the dismissal policy is a real draw. As yet another measles outbreak continues to spread in Texas and New Mexico, with the first two measles deaths in the U.S. in a decade, physicians are again facing a moral quandary: Should they refuse to see families who don't want to vaccinate their children, or keep them in their practices in the hopes of changing their minds? (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) 3pm Dr. Anderson sees a 4 year old patient who is getting vaccines 4:15pm A baby is getting a vaccine, but Dr. Anderson will not be there. The parent said it's fine to shoot her face and get artful phots of the vaccination, baby -- but she doesn't want her baby's face photographed. 8:52 4:30pm Dr. Anderson will be seeing another 4 year old patient who is getting vaccines

A pediatrician’s dilemma: Should a practice kick out unvaccinated kids?

Marianne de Reynier Nevsky, the cultural mediation manager in Neuchatel, left, and town council member Julie Courcier Delafontaine chat about a new "museum prescription" program outside the Ethnographic Museum of Neuchatel in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaton)

Stressed? Sick? Swiss town lets doctors prescribe museum visits as art therapy for patients

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