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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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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Unusual opioids are infiltrating street drugs. Knoxville’s top forensic doctor is on the front lines, pressing to quickly identify the most lethal.
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The health secretary has long complained that Americans overuse psychiatric medications. New policies he is introducing aim to change that.
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A lower-court ruling had reinstated a Food and Drug Administration requirement that patients visit a health care provider in person to obtain mifepristone.
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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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Three people aboard a cruise ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean have died from what health officials suspect were hantavirus infections.
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For decades, conservatives were adamantly opposed to the use of drugs like psilocybin and LSD. Now, the Trump administration has made a sharp pivot.
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A federal appeals court temporarily halted a Food and Drug Administration regulation that has greatly expanded access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
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The drugs are 10 times more dangerous than fentanyl. They are showing up in street drugs in the South and the Midwest, and will most likely spread to other regions.
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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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One case of hantavirus infection has been confirmed in a laboratory, the organization said on Sunday. There are five additional suspected cases.
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Some screenings and treatments no longer make sense for patients as they age. Researchers have just added a few more to the list.
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Jenna Norton had filed a whistle-blower complaint claiming that the agency leadership had retaliated against her.
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Patients with one of the deadliest cancers have been pleading for an unapproved treatment that may prolong their lives.
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