Health

US pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying it has ‘ignored the science’

London (AP) The nation is withdrawing its backing from the vaccines alliance Gavi, according to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who claimed ...

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WHO expert group fails to find a definitive answer for how COVID-19 began

Written by AP Medical Writer Maria Cheng London (AP) Scientists still don’t know how the biggest health disaster in a century started, according to ...

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RFK Jr.’s made promises about vaccines. Here’s what he’s done as health secretary

By The Associated Press Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, stated during his Senate confirmation hearings that he would not compromise immunizations. He ...

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‘We are still here, yet invisible’: Study finds that US government has overestimated Native American life expectancy

From the Los Angeles Times, by Marcos Maga Los Angeles According to a recent, ground-breaking study published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

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Thimerosal: What to know about the preservative from a bygone flu-shot debate

A long-standing controversy surrounding flu shots is being revived by the Trump administration’s vaccine advisers: should the final few vaccines that contain the contentious ...

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FDA requires updated warning about rare heart risk with COVID shots

Associated Press, by Matthew Perrone Washington (AP)The Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday that it has increased the number of warnings on a ...

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Kennedy’s new vaccine advisers meet for first time

Written by Lauran Neergaard and Mike Stobbe ATLANTA (AP) — Under heavy scrutiny from medical professionals concerned about Americans’ access to life-saving vaccines, U.S. ...

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‘Expensive and complicated’: Most rural hospitals no longer deliver babies

By Stateline.org’s Anna Claire Vollers Grove Hill Memorial Hospital in nearby Clarke County similarly ceased delivering infants in October 2023, nine months after Monroe ...

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Guns kill more US children than other causes, but state policies can help, study finds

According to Stateline.org, Nada Hassanein According to a recent study, states with more liberal gun laws had higher death rates and more pronounced racial ...

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