More FDA drama: Top drug regulator calls it quits after 3 weeks
The top drug regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, Richard Pazdur, has decided to retire…
This flu season looks grim as H3N2 emerges with mutations
Health officials in the United Kingdom are warning that this year’s flu season for the Northern…
James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died
James Dewey Watson, who helped reveal DNA’s double-helix structure, kicked off the Human Genome Project, and…
Inside the marketplace for vaccine medical exemptions
“They’re very blatant,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Law San Francisco who studies vaccine…
Calley Means is out of the White House; Casey Means misses Senate hearing
In a statement Thursday, government watchdog Public Citizen cheered the news of his departure. “The Trump…
FDA slows down on drug reviews, approvals amid Trump admin chaos
Amid the chaos of the Trump administration’s haphazard job cuts and a mass exodus of leadership,…
RFK Jr.’s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again
A prominent voice in the Make America Healthy Again movement is pushing for health secretary and…
Discovery of cells that keep immune responses in check wins medicine Nobel Prize
Today, finding a mutation on the X chromosome would be relatively easy. But in the 1990s,…
Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.
For these people, regardless of what state they are in, getting the vaccine would mean a…
CDC director has been ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation
Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told the outlet that Monarez “values…
Top pediatricians buck RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine meddling on COVID shot guidance
“It’s clear that we’re in a different place in the pandemic than we were four or…
After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
After seeking advice on health topics from ChatGPT, a 60-year-old man who had a “history of…
In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food
In a small randomized controlled trial, people lost twice as much weight when their diet was…
Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs
For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for…
RFK Jr. wants to change program that stopped vaccine makers from leaving US market
Dr. Paul Offit, a co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine and director of the Vaccine Education Center…
RFK Jr.‘s fluoride ban would ruin 25 million kids’ teeth, cost $9.8 billion
In all, the increased decay and boosted dental costs would disproportionately affect children who are in…