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Powdered whole milk used to make ByHeart infant formula could be a source of contamination that led to an outbreak of botulism that has sickened dozens of babies, U.S. health officials indicated Friday. Testing by the U.S.

A federal grand jury in Rhode Island indicted two former executives of pain management device company Zynex Medical with multiple counts of health care fraud this week.  The indictment alleges that from

An influential federal committee that advises the health secretary on all things autism and shapes federally funded autism research and support services held an orientation Thursday for new nonfederal members, according to

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The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday — suggesting the public might want to reconsider the use of polio

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Plans for a controversial U.S.-funded hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau have been paused pending further review from national authorities, African officials indicated Thursday.  “There has been no sufficient coordination in order

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. As blistering cold and snow threaten the eastern half of the U.S. this week, I

America’s health secretary takes a sip of whole milk and closes his eyes. In an instant, he’s transported to a blue-tinged nightclub filled with dancing bureaucrats dressed in business casual. He sways

When Anthony Letai took control of the National Cancer Institute in September, researchers had seen the federal government terminate billions in research grants, then had those grants restored by courts. Federal workers