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Mercury in Your Hot Dog? Vaccine Skeptics Face Their Limits at Crucial CDC Meeting

ATLANTA — Public health officials watched with dread as a panel shaped by the Trump administration took up an agenda to begin dismantling six decades of vaccination development and progress. ...

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Should You Get a Flu Shot This Fall? Here's What Experts Think

Experts say everyone who is eligible should get vaccinated against influenza this fall. Getty Images/Maskot Health officials anticipate this winter’s flu season to be moderate compared to ...

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Disability Bias Complaints Peak as the Office That Investigates Them Is Gutted

Families filed nearly 23,000 federal civil rights complaints against schools in fiscal 2024, the highest number ever. That includes about 8,400 cases involving allegations of discrimination...

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Kennedy’s Anti-Vaccine Council Is Going After the Easy Targets

Three months into its tenure, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked vaccine advisory committee has taken down one of its easiest targets.Today, its members voted to limit the national guidance for a c...

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Listen: The Surprising Power of Pushback When Health Insurance Won’t Pay

Being denied insurance coverage can be both confusing and, at times, enraging. But mounting a skillful challenge can turn a “no” into “yes.” From confusing policy language to coding errors t...

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Exactech Will Pay $8M To Settle Lawsuits Over Defective Knee Implant Parts

Medical device manufacturer Exactech has agreed to pay $8 million to settle allegations that it concealed defects in a popular line of artificial knee implants, which have been blamed for thousands...

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Kennedy’s Take on Vaccine Science Fractures Cohesive National Public Health Strategies

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had a busy few months. He fired the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, purged the agency’s vaccine advisory co...

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Ousted CDC Officials Clap Back at RFK Jr.

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie's stories. ...

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Wildfire smoke could soon kill 71,000 Americans every year

You may live many miles away from a wildfire, but it could still kill you. That’s because all that smoke wafting in from afar poses a mortal risk. The threat is so great, in fact, that any official...

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How RFK Jr. Could Eliminate Vaccines Without Banning Them

The world’s market for vaccines, as it exists today, depends on the United States. The U.S. has poured immense resources into the design and development of vaccines, and has paid far higher prices ...

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Study Reveals Unexpected Causes of Heart Attacks for Women Under 65

More than half of heart attacks in younger females could stem from causes other than artery blockage. Tashdique Mehtaj Ahmed/Getty Images Doctors often assume heart attacks in younger peop...

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Concussion, identity loss, depression: boxing’s toughest opponent isn’t in the ring – it’s mental health

Hatton, who won 45 of his 48 professional bouts across an esteemed 15-year career, last fought professionally in 2012. Go My Media/ShutterstockRicky Hatton’s death has reignited an all-too-familiar...

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Who to Trust If You Can’t Trust the CDC

Americans across the political spectrum are aligned on at least one belief, albeit for different reasons: The CDC is a mess. In a poll conducted this summer by The Washington Post and KFF, a nonpar...

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Ticks Are Migrating, Raising Disease Risks if They Can’t Be Tracked Quickly Enough

Biologist Grant Hokit came to this small meadow in the mountains outside Condon, Montana, to look for ticks. A hiking path crossed the expanse of long grasses and berry bushes. ...

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Health Care Cuts Threaten Homegrown Solutions to Rural Doctor Shortages

CHICO, Calif. — Olivia Owlett chose to do her primary care residency in this Northern California college town largely because it faces many of the same health care challenges she grew up with. ...

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This overlooked workout is key to aging better

Scientists say power—your ability to move quickly—is one of the first fitness skills to fade with age. And it’s not as hard as you think to build it back.You might still feel strong. Maybe you lift...

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Ozempic, Wegovy Less Effective for Emotional Eating Issues, Study Finds

Experts say emotional eating should be addressed before a person is prescribed a weight loss drug. Justin Paget/Getty Images A new study reports that weight loss medications may not be as ...

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Watch: Fired CDC Chief Says RFK Jr. Demanded She Roll Back Vaccine Policies Without Evidence

Susan Monarez, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Sept. 17 in her first public re...

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The Dangerous Outbreaks That Could Rise on College Campuses

In 2022, Florida weathered a bad outbreak of meningococcal disease, a type of fast-moving bacterial infection that can become fatal after entering the bloodstream or the lining of the brain and spi...

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Emergency mental health innovations require evidence based, co-designed approaches

The NHS 10 year plan announced an investment of £120m to develop “mental health emergency departments.”1 Before the plan’s publication, Downs expressed reservations in The BMJ about the unintended ...

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Is sleeping outside good for you? Science has a clear answer.

There are plenty of studies that suggest that being out in nature is good for your health, so it makes sense that sleeping beneath the stars would be, too. But if you’re not a person that’s prone t...

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