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UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos

Many schools are now bracing for steep declines in support. At Duke University, administrators have implemented hiring freezes, scaled back research plans, and will cut...

Large study shows drinking alcohol is good for your cholesterol levels

The good and the bad For reference, the optimal LDL level for adults is less than 100 mg/dL, and optimal HDL is 60 mg/dL or...

COVID shots protect kids from long COVID—and don’t cause sudden death

Benefits and a non-existent risk Using an adjusted odds ratio, the researchers found that vaccination reduced the likelihood of developing long COVID with one or...

Texas measles outbreak reaches 90 cases; 9 cases in New Mexico

Other affected counties in Texas include Dawson (6 cases); Ector (1); Lubbock (1); Lynn (1); Terry (20); and Yoakum (4). In Texas, the majority of...

Trump admin. fires USDA staff working on bird flu, immediately backpedals

Over the weekend, the Trump administration fired several frontline responders to the ongoing H5N1 bird flu outbreak—then quickly backpedaled, rescinding those terminations and attempting to...

“The country is less safe”: CDC disease detective program gutted

The cadre of elite disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to be left in ruin today as the Trump...

H5N1 testing in cow veterinarians suggests bird flu is spreading silently

Three veterinarians who work with cows have tested positive for prior infections of H5 bird flu, according to a study released today by the Centers...

Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties

Still, the county-wide number obscures pockets of yet lower vaccination rates. That includes the independent public school district in Loop, in the northeast corner of...

H5N1 bird flu spills over again; Nevada cows hit with different, deadly strain

The spread of H5N1 bird flu in dairy cows is unprecedented; the US outbreak is the first of its kind in cows. Virologists and infectious...

FDA approves first non-opioid pain medicine in more than 20 years

The approval "is an important public health milestone in acute pain management," Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, J.D., M.D., acting director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation...

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