New Orleans marks with parade the 64th anniversary of 4 little girls integrating city schools.

Federal marshals were needed to escort Tessie Prevost Williams , Leona Tate , Gail Etienne and Ruby Bridges to school.

The women now are often referred to as the New Orleans Four .

"I call them America ’s little soldier girls," group behind event says.

A large-scale study has found that standardized autism screening identifies more children who may have autism, and at younger ages, compared to usual care practices.

The study compared practices using standardized screening tools with those relying on clinical judgment and non-standardized methods.

Standardized screening identified 186 children, while usual care identified only 39 children at an average age of 23.6 months.

RSV is the leading cause of hospitalization for US infants, but it also causes severe and serious illnesses in adults, especially those 75 and older.

The 2017-2018 season carried the highest burden of severe illness, with 8,620 in-hospital deaths.

The 2023-2024 season marked the first season an RSV vaccine was available in the United States for adults over 60 at risk for severe outcomes.

Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon 's 5th Congressional District and will become the state’s first Black member of Congress .

Republicans lost a seat that they flipped red for the first time in roughly 25 years during the 2022 midterms.

The contest was seen as a GOP toss up by the Cook Political Report , meaning either party had a good chance of winning.

If every American over the age of 40 was as physically active as the top 25% of the population, they could expect to live an extra 5 years, on average.

And if the least physically active matched the level of the most physically active, they would need to clock up an extra 111 minutes of walking at 4.8 km/hour every day.

This could increase their life expectancy by nearly 11 years .

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, known as PCV , prevents around 30 percent of pneumonia, the most common cause of childhood deaths worldwide.

But new research has uncovered inequalities in how net economic benefits of the vaccine are distributed around the world.

This is despite the fact that most of the world's disease burden is concentrated in low and middle-income countries.

Vaccine prices could be set based on the expected economic benefits they provide at a country level.

Cross subsidization can be strengthened by charging higher prices to wealthy countries to encourage them to "pay their share" In 2024 , vaccine inequality remains a significant barrier to global health and this is likely to get worse as more products reach licensure.

There were an estimated 10.3 million cases of measles in 2023 , a 20% increase from 2022 .

Inadequate immunization coverage globally is driving the surge in cases.

Measles is preventable with two doses of measles vaccine; yet more than 22 million children missed their first dose.

57 countries experienced large or disruptive measles outbreaks, affecting all regions except Americas .

Measles elimination is defined as the absence of endemic measles virus transmission in a region or other defined geographical area for more than 12 months .

Conversely, a country is no longer considered to be measles free if the virus returns and transmission is sustained continuously for over a year .

For more information on WHO ’s measles response and support, visit http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles.

Rachel Davies , 40 , from Swansea , was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in 2021 .

She has been denied a life-extending drug because she lives in Wales .

The drug, called Enhertu, can give patients with incurable breast cancer an extra six months to live.

It is available in Scotland , as well as 19 other countries in Europe , but not in Wales , England or Northern Ireland .

NICE said it was too expensive for the NHS to pay for the drug because it is too expensive.

The Hope Scholarship Board voted Wednesday to approve a policy to allow children of military service members to remain eligible.

The law that created the program allows families to apply for state funding to support private school tuition, homeschooling fees.

Law expands eligibility in 2026 to all school-age children in West Virginia , regardless of where they attend school.

U.S. surgeons general under the Trump , Obama , Bush and Clinton administrations: We dedicated our careers to safeguarding the health of all Americans .

We urge for a renewed emphasis on America 's leadership and accountability in global health security.

We implore the new Trump administration to prioritize global health and vaccine confidence as critical national security concerns.