Lauren Weber

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported 9,933 cases in 2018 of Legionellosis, which includes both Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever. Legionnaires' disease made up the vast majority of cases, according to the CDC.

Record number of Legionnaires’ cases in 2018 risk lives, cause cleanup headaches

November 8, 2019 at 7:00 a.m.

Cases of Legionnaires' disease reached a record high in 2018 — a more than eight-fold increase since the numbers began to climb nearly two decades ago. The Centers for Disease...

Mark Asbrock, of Fairfield, Ohio, vapes while listening to speakers during a pro vaping rally on October 1, 2019, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.

‘We vape, we vote’: How vaping crackdowns are politicizing vapers

October 16, 2019 at 4:48 p.m.

Vapers across the country are swarming Twitter, the White House comment line and statehouse steps with the message "We Vape, We Vote." They're speaking out after a slew of attacks...

Doctors and regional officials in Wisconsin, Illinois and elsewhere pieced together that a mysterious respiratory illness was much larger than it appeared. Their efforts linking the illness to vaping is a tale of teamwork, communication and long-serving public health officials tapping into their networks in an era of limited public health funding and diminished public health infrastructure.

Meet the health officials who alerted the world to the alarming vaping illness

October 3, 2019 at 8:26 p.m.

Dr. Lynn D'Andrea knew something was amiss when three teenagers with similar mysterious, dangerous lung injuries came into the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin one after another, gasping for air. As...

These health officials alerted the world to the alarming vaping illness

October 9, 2019 at 3:31 p.m.

Treponema pallidum, the bacterium responsible for the dangerous sexually transmitted infection syphilis.

As syphilis invades rural America, a fraying health safety net is failing to stop it

May 4, 2019 at 1:57 p.m.

When Karolyn Schrage first heard about the "dominoes gang" in the health clinic she runs in Joplin, Mo., she assumed it had to do with pizza. Turns out it was...

Review: “Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What” by Lee Eisenberg

May 9, 2019 at 7:58 p.m.

"Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What" By Lee Eisenberg Free Press, 334 pages, $26 It's appropriate that Lee Eisenberg's new book, "Shoptimism: Why the...

Review: “Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What” by Lee Eisenberg

August 22, 2021 at 11:41 p.m.

"Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What" By Lee EisenbergFree Press, 334 pages, $26 It's appropriate that Lee Eisenberg's new book, "Shoptimism: Why the American...

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