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RFK Jr. claws back $11.4B in CDC funding amid wave of top-level departures

Those departures follow Kevin Griffis, head of the CDC’s office of communications, who left last week; Robin Bailey, the agency’s chief operating officer, left late...

UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first

In the UK, officials said further testing of the rest of the sheep's flock has found no other infections. The one infected ewe has been...

Measles arrives in Kansas, spreads quickly in undervaccinated counties

On Thursday, the county on the northern border of Stevens, Grant County, also reported three confirmed cases, which were also linked to the first case...

Bird flu continues spread as Trump’s pandemic experts are MIA

Under the Biden administration, OPPR also worked behind the scenes. At the time, it was directed by Paul Friedrichs, a physician and retired Air Force...

Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question

Ars Technica has reached out to the NIH and HHS for comment and will update this story with any new information provided. The agencies did...

UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos

Many schools are now bracing for steep declines in support. At Duke University, administrators have implemented hiring freezes, scaled back research plans, and will cut...

Large study shows drinking alcohol is good for your cholesterol levels

The good and the bad For reference, the optimal LDL level for adults is less than 100 mg/dL, and optimal HDL is 60 mg/dL or...

COVID shots protect kids from long COVID—and don’t cause sudden death

Benefits and a non-existent risk Using an adjusted odds ratio, the researchers found that vaccination reduced the likelihood of developing long COVID with one or...

Texas measles outbreak reaches 90 cases; 9 cases in New Mexico

Other affected counties in Texas include Dawson (6 cases); Ector (1); Lubbock (1); Lynn (1); Terry (20); and Yoakum (4). In Texas, the majority of...

Trump admin. fires USDA staff working on bird flu, immediately backpedals

Over the weekend, the Trump administration fired several frontline responders to the ongoing H5N1 bird flu outbreak—then quickly backpedaled, rescinding those terminations and attempting to...

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