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The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health ...

The Trump administration wants to shutter the CDC’s National Asthma Control Program, which provides millions in funding to ...

The petition, filed by Massachusetts, New York, California, and New Jersey, aims to compel the FDA to recognize that mifepristone is safe and effective. More reproductive health news includes GLP-1 ...

The Wall Street Journal reports on the expected FDA approval of lenacapavir and what it might mean for Gilead's future in the market. Other coverage of science and research-related news is on a ...

The AI search tool allows clinicians to input patients' clinical presentations and receive relevant academic articles from medical journals. This is the second deal the AI startup, OpenEvidence, has ...

Desperate to find savings in President Donald Trump's budget bill, Senate Republicans are opening the door to changes to Medicare — which they previously indicated would not be a part of the ...

A Washington Post review found recent messy re-hirings at agencies including the Food and Drug Administration, the State Department, and others. "It feels like it was all just a game to them,” one ...

Denver's THRIVE program, which aims to help those experiencing homelessness and addiction, has also helped to decrease jail bookings. Other news from around the nation comes from North Carolina, ...

Some of the layoffs will be to compensate for those rehired after the first wave. Meanwhile, Politico reports on how HHS had no intention of rehiring 20% of the departments' fired employees, as ...

Editorial writers analyze these public health issues. The New York Times: I Led Harvard's Medical School, And I Fear For What's To Come Biomedical research carried out across the Harvard ecosystem is ...

The 8-year-old girl was not vaccinated against the highly contagious virus. Three days after the girl's death — and after the nation's tally of cases topped 600 — HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.