A way out: Life after fentanyl is full of hope and heartbreak for these four women
Editor’s Note: “Fentanyl in America: A Way Out” on “The Whole Story presented by Anderson Cooper” at 8 p.m. ET/PT Sunday. In a letter dated …
Some measles patients in West Texas show signs of vitamin A toxicity, doctors say, raising concerns about misinformation
Doctors treating people hospitalized as part of a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico have also found themselves facing another problem: vitamin A toxicity. …
Top vaccine official forced out of FDA
Dr. Peter Marks, director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, was given the choice to resign or be fired. Marks’ resignation takes …
Her research revealed a safety concern with a vaccine. Then the NIH pulled her funding
On March 10, Dr. Nisha Acharya got a letter from the National Institutes of Health terminating her grant to study the safety and effectiveness of …
HHS cuts 10,000 employees in major overhaul of health agencies
This comes on top of 10,000 employees who’ve left voluntarily, amounting to shrinking by about a quarter of the workforce. The cuts were first reported …
Millions of women get painful UTIs that keep coming back. A new kind of antibiotic may help break the cycle
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of antibiotic to treat urinary tract infections. The pill, gepotidacin, will be sold under …
NIH ends future funding to study the health effects of climate change
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Five senior CDC leaders to depart as agency braces for deep cuts
Five key division leaders at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are leaving the public health agency as it braces for cuts that …
Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was …
Trump administration pulls back billions in Covid-era funding for state, local health departments
State and local public health departments are bracing themselves as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulls back about $11.4 billion in grants …