Photo credit: AP Photo/Adam Gray – Extreme heat can become lethal quickly. A woman fans herself while waiting in line to buy Broadway show tickets during a heat advisory in New York’s Times Square in May 2026.
Photo credit: zoranm/E+ via Getty Images – Studies have found small amounts of toxic heavy metals and other potentially harmful substances in some menstrual pads and tampons.
Photo credit: Jim Gathany via CDC/Dr. William Collins – Malaria is transmitted to people by mosquitoes infected with a parasite from the <em>Plasmodium</em> family.
