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A panel chosen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted to recommend ending the CDC’s long-standing guidance that called for routine hepatitis B vaccination for newborns. The Advisory Committee on Immunization...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee meets Thursday for the first of two days of discussions on childhood vaccine schedules and recommendations. The main focus is the hepatitis B...
Twelve former commissioners and acting commissioners of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — appointed by presidents of both parties — sharply challenged recent internal assertions by the agency’s current vaccine...
Federal officials pledged "radical transparency" for a $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, but many states are keeping full applications out of public view even as project summaries appear online.
A team of students at Lambert High School in suburban Atlanta used CRISPR-based methods to develop a prototype that could detect Lyme disease far earlier than current tests. Their project, created for the international...
A group of students from Lambert High School in suburban Atlanta drew international attention at the iGEM synthetic biology competition in Paris by building CRISPR-based approaches to both detect and treat Lyme disease....
A team of students from Lambert High School, a suburban Atlanta public school, used CRISPR tools to develop a rapid diagnostic concept and a modeled treatment strategy for Lyme disease as part of their entry in iGEM...
The holidays bring together family and friends, but they can also increase stress, sadness, and worry for many people. Clinical psychologist Dr. Joshua Coleman explains practical ways to protect your mental health...
Nick Kolor, 25, a Florida Keys instructor who teaches people how to breathe underwater, made a bigger leap off the diving board: he donated one of his kidneys to a stranger. Kolor says he acted simply because someone...
Updated Nov. 25, 2025 — ByHeart, the maker of a powdered infant formula connected to a recent botulism outbreak, said its products may be broadly contaminated after lab tests found Clostridium botulinum Type A in...
