Month: November 2025

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Top FDA vaccine official rejected broad use of Covid-19 shots, documents show

Vaccines Federal agencies Respiratory viruses New in medicine See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow The US Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official overrode agency experts in May to recommend against the broad use of two Covid-19 vaccines, newly released documents show. Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the agency’s Center for […]

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‘Cool’ people tend to have these six things in common, study finds

Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! An international team of researchers may have just cracked the code for what makes someone “cool.” And no matter where you live, the personality traits that make someone “cool” appear to be consistent across countries, according to the study, published this week in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. The […]

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A ‘striking’ trend: After Texas banned abortion, more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage

Maternal health Women’s health Abortion rights See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive its biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Before states banned abortion, one of the gravest outcomes of early miscarriage […]

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A couple tried for 18 years to get pregnant. AI made it happen

AI Maternal health Women’s health See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow After trying to conceive for 18 years, one couple is now pregnant with their first child thanks to the power of artificial intelligence. The couple had undergone several rounds of in vitro fertilization, or IVF, visiting fertility centers around the […]

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HHS abruptly calls off meeting of expert panel on preventive care, raising questions about its future

Federal agencies Wellness See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow The US Department of Health and Human Services called off an upcoming meeting of expert advisers on preventive health care, raising questions about the future of the longtime, nonpolitical advisory group. A notice was sent Monday afternoon saying that the office of […]

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How can families handle anxiety around summer camp after the Texas floods?

Hurricanes Storms See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow When tragedies are in the news — natural disasters, plane crashes, fires — parents naturally and unavoidably react by thinking about what might happen to their own children. And children worry in turn about what might happen to them. The flash flooding last […]

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Major medical associations sue Kennedy, Trump administration health leaders for Covid-19 vaccine changes

Vaccines Respiratory viruses Children’s health Federal agencies See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow Medical associations representing hundreds of thousands of doctors, medical professionals and scientists in the United States are suing the leaders of US health agencies for limiting who can get Covid-19 vaccines and for undermining overall vaccine confidence. The […]

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World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos

Cancer Federal agencies Donald Trump See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded advances against the disease for decades. NCI, which has long benefited from enthusiastic bipartisan support, […]