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WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allies are hopeful that his agency’s move this week to reduce the number of recommended pediatric vaccines opens the door to stripping vaccine makers

Pap smears must be a strong contender for the worst best thing to happen to gynecology. The test, alongside HPV vaccinations, functioned as the lynchpin of a prevention program that has dramatically

The list of health benefits from weight loss drugs is long, but they last only as long as people take them.  Beyond being good for type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and clogged

A group of researchers that formed the scientific basis of new dietary guidelines included people with financial ties to the beef and dairy industries, as well as food companies and other groups.

The Trump administration on Wednesday issued a long-promised revamp of national dietary guidelines, urging Americans to eat more protein and less added sugar and, for the first time, discouraging consumption of highly

It was, in a word, unprecedented. As Helen Branswell, STAT’s infectious diseases correspondent, explains in this video, Monday’s move by the Department of Health and Human Services — political appointees of health

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As the Trump administration looks to create a federal definition of ultra-processed foods, the question of the best way to differentiate products within a category that can lump packaged whole-wheat bread together

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