From the Trump administration to online influencers, the hormone is increasingly seen as the key to achieving a new male ideal.
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The new strategy also holds promise for lung and colon tumors. Here’s how scientists discovered it.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside his department, a sprawling research effort is a top priority.
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A study of a few patients, to be presented this week, showed promise for a type of therapy that has already cured some blood cancers.
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Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has paused until at least Thursday a federal appeals court ruling against the Food and Drug Administration that would restrict access by mail to mifepristone.
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But it has been hard to attract interest in medical interventions for viruses that have not been considered a top public health priority, scientists say.
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Though illicit e-cigarettes have flooded in from China, the new policy could allow major tobacco companies to sell from prime shelf space at thousands of stores.
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Small groups of passengers and crew left the ship after it anchored off Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday. Those aboard were expected to be flown to their home countries, officials said.
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Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.
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The health agency has been particularly strict in abolishing at-home work, overriding accommodations that were granted years before the pandemic.
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A Dutch flight attendant and French national were among the latest to be tested in connection with a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship. But an analysis in South Africa showed no mutations in viral samples.
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Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of becoming free of addiction.
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A Bristol Myers Squibb plant that makes cancer drugs was the only manufacturer in the U.S. recognized for innovation by the World Economic Forum this year.
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The agency’s scientists and data contractors reviewed millions of patient records for studies that were pulled back before release.
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Influencers and health gurus are offering pregnancy solutions during “trimester zero,” when women are trying to conceive.
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The last evacuees disembarked in the Canary Islands, and a smaller crew is now en route to Rotterdam, where the ship will be disinfected, officials said.
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The cruise ship will arrive on the island of Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands of Spain, officials said. All of the passengers will then be evacuated to their home countries.
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A hospital in Manitoba had to postpone a “limited number of elective surgeries” after ants appeared there for the third time since 2024.
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Experts have been quick to reassure the public after the deaths aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, but images and turns of phrase have rekindled anxieties from Covid’s early days.
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It may look like vanity, but it’s a debilitating mental health condition.
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The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks.
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Since the family of rodent-borne infections were identified in the 1950s, they have turned up all over the world.
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