At least six hospitals have struck agreements with the Trump administration to pay fines and stop providing gender-transition treatments to minors.
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Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.
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Scientists are developing imaging techniques and blood tests that one day may enable doctors to identify the disease definitively in living patients.
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Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Patients and workers in one of the country’s largest hospitals sweltered in a heat wave last month. Experts say the whole country must urgently adapt.
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Ahead of the midterm elections, the president said that all states had opted in to an effort to align Medicaid’s prices for medicines with those in other wealthy countries.
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The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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The gene is found predominantly in Southern Appalachia and may be one of the most powerful cancer-risk mutations ever found.
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Surging drug use has contributed to an epidemic in the Pacific island nation, where one in 60 adults is estimated to be living with the virus.
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Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.
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A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to Cheryl Hines, the health secretary’s wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing from his agenda.
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The agency led by Dr. Mehmet Oz is proposing an end to weekly tracking of respiratory infections at the facilities where thousands of elderly residents died in the pandemic.
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Suicide deaths have often fluctuated over the years but a sustained downward trend remains elusive.
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The Democratic candidate for governor backed restrictions on disposal of fracking wastewater around a hard-hit town, and called for a “thorough investigation” of the dangers.
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Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective.
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He developed a program that became a model for hospitals around the world, making it easier for poor Black patients to navigate an onerous bureaucratic system.
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Federal projects are rolling out A.I. agents that offer therapy and prescribe medicine, raising concerns about safety and the influence of venture capital investors.
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As Vermont’s health commissioner, he helped create a model for providing food and dental care. Later, he directed the first national vaccine program.
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Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all.
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The cases were reported in four states, and led to two hospitalizations. No deaths have been reported.
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