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The CDC reports that 95% of measles cases in the U.S. are in people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. FG Trade/Getty Images
The growing measles outbreak in the U...
“Breaking news: The Trump administration just announced that Medicare will stop covering telehealth starting April 1. … We need to stand up to these Medicare cuts.”
Rep. Ro. Khanna (D-Cali...
The study acknowledges other factors may also play a part.Transgender adults who received gender-affirming hormone therapy had a significantly lower risk of moderate-to-severe depression over four ...
If the world seems to you a little nastier and more confrontational than it was just a few years ago, you're not alone. Many Americans say the world is a ruder place than it was before the COVID-19...
When the FDA announced in January, before President Joe Biden’s term ended, that it would ban a dye called red dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs, the federal agency cited just one 1987 study on ...
HELENA, Mont. — Montana lawmakers are grappling with how — if at all — the state should rein in kratom, an unregulated plant-derived substance with addictive properties sold mainly as a mood and en...
Spending cuts, immigration, and Medicaid are at the top of the Washington agenda. That climate provides fertile ground for misinformation and myths to multiply on social networks. Some of t...
The Senate Finance Committee got its chance March 14 to question Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the vast Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the largest agency within...
National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the ag...
In Season 3 of “The White Lotus,” some characters pop lorazepam like candy, highlighting the potential for dependency and misuse. CHANAKARN LAOSARAKHAM/AFP via Getty Images
Lorazepam, a co...
MILAN (AP) — Dele Alli’s first professional appearance in more than two years lasted just nine minutes before he was sent off.The former England international was shown a straight red card late on ...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths. In 2...
Arnold Schwarzenegger wants those with joint pain and mobility issues to know they are not alone. Klaus Pressberger/SEPA.Media /Getty Images
Revered actor and former politician Arnold Schw...
Dr. Kimberly Shriner remembers the first COVID-19 patient who came into Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California, in March 2020.He was a 35-year-old man who arrived at the hospital short of brea...
KFF Health News senior correspondent David Hilzenrath discussed how the FDA allows risky chemicals in America’s food supply on CBS’ “CBS Mornings Plus” on March 11.
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Experts believe climate change may affect seasonal allergies due to lengthening growing seasons. janiecbros/Getty Images
Seasonal allergies seem to last longer and be more severe in recent...
Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump’s administration are taking aim at a $42 billion infrastructure program launched in 2021 to bring high-speed internet to all Americans.
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Heston Blumenthal, the celebrity chef known for his experimental cuisine, recently shared his experience of being sectioned under the UK’s Mental Health Act, saying it was “the best thing” that cou...
Dr. Rochelle Walensky called for wider guidance in a new opinion paper.The former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called for stronger, nationwide guidance on infan...
Updated at 10:56 a.m. on March 14, 2025
Until the second Trump administration took over, the National Institutes of Health—the world’s single largest public funder of biomedical research—was n...
There seems to be a limit to how anti-vax is too anti-vax in the Trump administration. Yesterday, hours before Dave Weldon was slated to begin his Senate confirmation hearing for CDC director, the ...