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Nearly 18 months after taking office, President Trump has nominated a leader for the federal agency that oversees mental health and addiction policy.  If confirmed by the Senate, Timothy Westlake, a Wisconsin-based

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The Men’s Health Act, a bipartisan bill to establish an office of men’s health within the Department of Health and Human Services, will be introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday by

As more Americans experiment with synthetic peptides despite warnings about their unproven benefits and potential risks, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration will meet on Thursday and Friday to

STAT is co-publishing this article by The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service and veterans. When the Covid-19 vaccine was released in 2020, Daniel Pendergast

New data from a study in humans provides additional support to the idea that Merck’s Ebola vaccine Ervebo, licensed to target the Zaire species of ebolaviruses, could also offer some protection against

BUNIA, Congo — More than 1,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in Congo, according to Africa’s top health body, a grim toll in the fastest Ebola outbreak in history, as conflict, community

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LĀHAINĀ, Hawai‘i — About once a month, Alika Maunakea and Ruben Juarez and their staff fly medical equipment from the University of Hawai‘i on O‘ahu to the west side of Maui. On the

An increasing number of adults are slogging through jobs they don’t like solely because they don’t want to lose their health insurance. This phenomenon — known as “job lock” — has existed