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Senior officials of the World Health Organization, including Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, criticized the Trump administration’s newest attempt to trigger an overhaul of U.S. vaccination policy on Wednesday, calling it politically motivated

Waiting for treatment to start can be an excruciating period for cancer patients. There can be fears that the disease is spreading, or progressing to a point where therapies become less effective.

Not long after guidelines shifted to considering statin therapy as early as age 30, new research from France suggests there may be no harm in stopping the cholesterol-lowering drugs at age 75

President Donald Trump’s administration said that Medicaid will stop paying for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender minors and the state Children’s Health Insurance Program won’t pay for the treatments for

History tells us that President Trump’s executive order calling for the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to be split into separate shots could do real harm. If policymakers prevail on vaccine makers,

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When Stephen Rosenfeld and Patricia Seymour founded the not-for-profit North Star Review Board, they’d become disillusioned with the scientific oversight system in America. IRBs, or institutional review boards, are supposed to have

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, which in recent months had avoided public discussions of vaccine policy because of concern around the political repercussions, is changing course.  Speaking from the Oval Office, President

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced a new effort to catalog the many additives in the U.S. food supply, most of which entered with little oversight. 

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