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WASHINGTON — On Independence Avenue, inside a gray brutalist building regarded by many as this city’s ugliest, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has constructed a monument to his family.  Down the royal-blue-carpeted, brightly

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The scars have been there as long as Emory Hufbauer can remember.  When Hufbauer was a baby, doctors performed an operation that Hufbauer describes generally as one that took away their fertility

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In October, President Trump revealed that he recently underwent an MRI and said that the results were “perfect.” He was not specific about what type of MRI he received, though later in

There are a few unusual things about the infant botulism outbreak that prompted formula maker ByHeart to recall all of its products across the U.S. this week.  The first is that regulators

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Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. It’s cold in Boston, and I heard from folks in a few

Christopher Gardner is exuberant in his distress. Wearing a black sweatshirt emblazoned with the word “SCIENCE” in all caps one recent afternoon, the Stanford nutrition scientist threw his arms over his head

WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he does not want to take vaccines away from Americans. But at a closed-door meeting of Food and Drug Administration vaccine scientists