Questionable cull Today's layoffs are the work of White House Budget Director Russell Vought, a lead creator of the Project 2025 playbook, which planned a...
An October meeting of a key federal vaccine advisory committee has been canceled without explanation, sparing the evidence-based childhood vaccination schedule from more erosion—at least...
In an interview with Ars Technica in August, Brigid Groves, vice president of professional affairs for the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) signaled that efforts to...
Today, finding a mutation on the X chromosome would be relatively easy. But in the 1990s, it was a labor-intensive effort. After narrowing the mutation's...
According to new polling data, nearly 80 percent of Americans support extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits, which are set to expire...
Switching names In November 2022, the WHO decided to change the name. The United Nations health agency noted that it had received reports from individuals...
There are also trichobezoars, which are formed by consuming hair—something linked to hair-pulling and eating disorders (trichotillomania and trichophagia). Lactobezoars are made from milk products...
At one point, Hillary Blackburn, a pharmacist and daughter-in-law of Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), noted that her mother developed lung cancer two years after getting...
In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration approved a combo shot for all four—the MMRV vaccine—which provided an alternative to the previous method of giving...
Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who is a senior fellow at the Independent Medical Alliance (formerly Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance), which promotes misinformation...