There is a kind of quiet terror that moves through a children’s hospital when news breaks of a disease people thought had disappeared. In Pennsylvania, that terror became painfully real this week as the state recorded its first measles deaths in decades. For many parents, the announcement felt like a jolt from another era—a sudden reminder that the world their grandparents grew up in is not as far away as they once believed. Measles was supposed to be one of those illnesses in medical history books, a disease that vaccines had pushed aside. Yet now, in modern American hospitals, doctors…

When King Charles III and Catherine, Princess of Wales, shared their cancer diagnoses with the public in early 2024, the news rippled through the United Kingdom and far beyond. There was genuine sympathy, concern, and a renewed public conversation about cancer. But something else happened too. As the headlines multiplied, so did misinformation about cancer, treatment, prognosis, and so-called alternatives to conventional care. A new study published in ecancermedicalscience decided to take a closer look. Researchers from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College London, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical…