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Louisiana’s health department cancels promotion of mass vaccinations
State’s surgeon general presents illness-preventing jabs as personal choice in move that experts call ‘infuriating’US politics – live updatesLouisiana’s health department “will no longer p
Read MoreSTAT+: U.K. lawmaker wants regulators to probe pharma companies over ‘misleading’ Covid-19 vaccines statements
A member of the U.K. Parliament is calling for regulators to audit pharmaceutical companies that have made misleading statements to the public about their Covid-19 vaccines.
Read MoreNIH Research Grants Lag Behind Last Year’s by $1 Billion
After weeks of disruption to scientific federal grants, the National Institutes of Health has fallen behind in funding research into treatments for deadly diseases.
Read MoreUrgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate
Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.
Read More'Popular' Cancer Misinformation; Menthol Smokes Riskier; Farmers vs Pesticides
(MedPage Today) -- Has cancer misinformation become more popular than the facts? (Harvard Magazine) Former NFL player and head coach Dick Jauron, 74, has died of brain cancer.
Read MoreTrump administration to fire thousands at health agencies
The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.
Read MoreWHO calls for cigarette-style cancer warnings on alcohol packaging
Cancer charities back call for prominent warning labels while industry body says move ‘not proportionate’Cans and bottles of alcohol should carry cigarette-style labels warning that drinking incre
Read MoreSTAT+: House panel tees up debate over cutting Medicaid to pay for tax breaks
A House budget bill does not mention Medicaid by name, but directs the committee that oversees Medicaid to come up with $880 billion in cuts.
Read MoreCDC to lose one-tenth of workforce under Trump administration probationary job cuts
Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the CDC are being forced out under the Trump administration's move to get rid of all probationary employees.
Read MoreTrump Slashes CDC Workforce
(MedPage Today) -- Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the CDC -- roughly one-tenth of the agency's workforce -- are being forced out under the Trump administration's move to get rid of all pr
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