Health
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Trump administration rolls out $50 billion rural health fund
All 50 states will receive monetary assistance that will go to rural areas starting next year, with the first wave of awards ranging from $147 million to $281 million.
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HHS opens probe into Seattle Children's Hospital over transgender youth health care
The referral comes after HHS announced last week it was moving to bar hospitals from offering “sex-rejecting procedures on children” as a condition of participating in Medicare and Medicaid.
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You Vote: Should Dept. of HHS be stopped by lawsuit from blocking transgender procedures for minors?
The policy change was in line with President Donald Trump's executive order directing the HHS to end the practice.
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RFK Jr. appoints former ACIP chairman Martin Kulldorff to senior HHS post
The department said Kulldorff, who is an epidemiologist who previously worked at Harvard Medical School, will be the chief science officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
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FDA to implement stricter vaccine rules after memo ties child deaths to COVID-19 vaccine
“For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children,” the FDA’s vaccine director, Dr. Vinay Prasad, said in a memo to staff.
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Pfizer buries data showing mRNA flu vaccine bombed in trial with elderly, not much better under 65
More than a year after its promised deadline to investors, drugmaker puts alarming results in federal government's "virtual filing cabinet" and touts absolute difference of 0.32% for non-elderly adults in prestigious journal.
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Walking Dead: Obamacare gender identity mandate stalks doctors despite Trump orders, they say
Trump judge wrote a binding regulation out of existence in dismissing lawsuit by Florida, Catholic doctors against Section 1557 rewrite, which Trump's HHS has never pledged to repeal, 11th Circuit hears.
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Retailers allegedly sell kratom, 7-OH despite health warnings
Kratom is banned by various counties and cities in California and other states. It is legal in other areas. There is no federal law against kratom and 7-OH, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration currently does not have any approved uses for either substance.
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Vaccines and welfare fraud? Autism spike culprits widen with CDC about-face, Minnesota prosecutions
Agency admits research hasn't "ruled out" vaccine-autism link, subject of four-year-old lawsuit. "The CDC has simply been lying to you," vaccine injury lawyer says. Minnesota "autism fraud scheme" trades diagnoses for dollars, feds say.
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Kennedy teases end to 'war on saturated fats’ in upcoming dietary guidelines
The secretary told the Food Allergy Fund Leadership Forum that the new guidelines will "revolutionize" the food culture in the United States and emphasize the importance of consuming saturated fat and protein.
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Efforts to remove fluoride from drinking water make steady progress amid mainstream headwinds
Overall this year, 17 states introduced bills to ban fluoridation. Two passed (Utah and Florida), 10 failed, and five are pending.
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Trump announces deal to lower prices of some popular weight-loss drugs
The deal is with both Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, and is expected to lower the price of obesity drugs to $149 per month in some cases
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Military mystery: San Francisco health officials slam Navy over high levels of plutonium in shipyard
Naval director promised to be “transparently sharing the information we have compiled”