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The United States may resume funding for a global humanitarian vaccine alliance, reversing a decision by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to hold up the money because of vaccine concerns, Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated Tuesday. Rubio told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the State Department was wresting back control...
Read full article →The so-called Queen of Versailles is trading her kingdom for Capitol Hill, heading to Congress to mark a day she championed dedicated to bringing attention to naloxone, commonly known as the brand name Narcan, which can reverse opioid overdoses. "Ten years ago, no one knew what Narcan was," Jackie Siegel told ITK in an interview....
Read full article →DETROIT (AP) — Two scientists at a U.S. government lab were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa and lying about it during interviews with investigators at a Michigan airport, authorities said Tuesday. A criminal complaint was unsealed in federal court in Detroit against Vincent Munster, who is chief...
Read full article →The state had high rates of parents not vaccinating their children, so it started making them attend vaccine education sessions to opt out their kids. It seemed to work. Then things got ugly.
Read full article →Sentri7, drug diversion software powered by artificial intelligence and used at hundreds of U.S. hospitals, did not catch a months-long string of fentanyl thefts in Tennessee in 2025, according to a state document.
Read full article →Novellia raised $18 million in Series A funding to scale its platform, which helps patients consolidate medical records and share anonymized data with pharma companies. CEO Shashi Shankar argued that sourcing data directly from patients can create more complete healthcare datasets and improve drug research. The post Novellia Snags $18M for Its Real-World Data Platform appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →A survey finds that ultra-processed foods are a cross-partisan concern. And yet policy has been slow to follow.
Read full article →Advocates were already dreading Medicaid's work requirements. New rules are worse than they feared.
Read full article →While NIH-funded centers weren’t on the front lines of virus responses like the CDC or USAID, some researchers involved in the network said the cuts have damaged relationships with experts…
Read full article →“Much of the rhetoric, imagery, and policy messaging from the Trump administration centers on extreme masculine ideals,” First Opinion author writes.
Read full article →“Public health is going to have to talk about the Amish more and more”: Listen to STAT’s "First Opinion Podcast" on the Amish and health care.
Read full article →“The financial side effects of care have become clinical ones,” writes Darshak Sanghavi.
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