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RFK Jr. says COVID shots still available to all as cancer patients denied access

Here are some key moments from today's hearing: Untrustworthy With the fallout ongoing from the abrupt ouster of CDC Director Susan Monarez last week, many...

CDC spiraled into chaos this week. Here’s where things stand.

On Thursday, the Post reported that the White House had already named a replacement. Jim O’Neill, currently the deputy secretary of HHS, is to be...

CDC director has been ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation

Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told the outlet that Monarez "values science, is a solid researcher, and has a history...

CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of 8 top infections

In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dramatically, but quietly, scaled back a food safety surveillance system, cutting active tracking from eight top...

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Doctors soon discovered they were infected with the rare soil bacterium, which causes a disease called melioidosis. Dangerous infection Generally, melioidosis can be difficult to...

America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change

Vulnerabilities Using data from the Food and Drug Administration, the researchers identified 10,861 drug facilities that were active for at least one year between 2019...

Top pediatricians buck RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine meddling on COVID shot guidance

"It's clear that we're in a different place in the pandemic than we were four or five years ago in terms of risks to healthy...

Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh-eating flies appears imminent

Past success As the flies' host and geographic range expand, pressure is intensifying to control the flies—something many countries have managed to do in the...

In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food

In a small randomized controlled trial, people lost twice as much weight when their diet was limited to minimally processed food compared to when they...

Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

Vaccination rates among the country's kindergartners have fallen once again, with coverage of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination dropping from 92.7 percent in...

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