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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Small groups of passengers and crew disembarked from the ship after it anchored off Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday. People were expected to fly to their home countries through Monday, officials said.
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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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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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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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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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Health authorities said three passengers from the MV Hondius had died after showing symptoms of the rare disease.
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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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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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