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A CDC panel that makes vaccine recommendations was scheduled to meet in late February.

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  • Health

First CDC vaccine meeting under Trump administration is postponed

The panel of vaccine experts were supposed to hold their first meeting under the Trump administration in late February. It's not clear when that meeting will now take place.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone
Mental Health Parity Day at the Capitol 2025

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  • Health

Not enough to have Mental Health Parity Act — it must be enforced, say advocates at Georgia Capitol

The Legislature passed Georgia’s Mental Health Parity Act in 2022. Since then, the Carter Center and mental health care advocates have remembered the day by visiting lawmakers and asking agencies to hold insurance companies accountable for keeping the state law.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
One of the social media graphics included in the "Wild to Mild" flu vaccination campaign run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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  • Health Care

Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign

As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone
A Caesars Sportsbook gambling advertisement on the exterior of a building in New York City in 2024.

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  • Health

As sports betting has soared, more people search online for help with gambling addiction

A study shows more people are looking for help to manage gambling addiction, in the years after a Supreme Court decision allowed online sports betting in 38 states.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
Doctors from a Chinese medical team examine children at the Juba Orphanage in South Sudan in September 2024 — part of China's effort to play a leading role in the world of global health.

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  • Global Health

As the U.S. steps back from global health, what role will China play?

With the U.S. withdrawing from the World Health Organization and rethinking foreign aid, China has an opportunity to play a bigger role — with different goals.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, (center), flanked by Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., the ranking member (left), and Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., (right). House Republicans work on a budget plan to advance President Trump's priorities, including $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 13.

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  • Health

Republican proposals to cut Medicaid could be politically fraught

Republicans are proposing deep cuts to Medicaid to finance tax cuts and other priorities. Pushback is coming not only from Democrats, but also from hospitals that rely on revenue from the program.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Phil Galewitz
Workers removed the sign at the U.S. Agency for International Development building on February 7.

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  • Global Health

In potential showdown, aid groups demand court find USAID, State officials in contempt

Aid groups are urging a federal judge to find Trump administration officials in contempt to force them to reopen funding to global programs. USAID says it has a legal right to cancel aid contracts.

February 19, 2025
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
Former Chicago Blackhawks player Bobby Hull is introduced to fans during the NHL hockey team's convention in Chicago on July 26, 2019. Hull's family announced he was suffering from CTE — the brain condition known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy when he died in 2023.

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  • Sports

Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull died with CTE, researchers say

Bobby Hull, an electric left-winger known as the 'Golden Jet', marveled hockey fans for his will to win. Named one of the NHL's greatest players, Hull was found to have had CTE after his death.

February 19, 2025
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By:
  • Russell Lewis
Dr. Steven Lamm leads a comprehensive center for men's health at NYU Langone medical center in New York City.

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  • Health

Men die younger than women. Is it time for a focus on men's health?

Researchers would like to see more study on how stress, the economy and attitudes toward medicine influence the well-being and longevity of men.

February 19, 2025
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By:
  • Ashley Milne-Tyte
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it is taking steps to optimize its workforce and reduce its spending — but is now trying to rescind the firing of some employees.

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  • Politics

The USDA fired staffers working on bird flu. Now it's trying to reverse course

The USDA says "several" staffers working on the bird flu response were terminated over the weekend, and "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters."

February 19, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A demonstration at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters on Feb. 18, 2025, saw retired public health workers and others join to support current CDC employees as they left work to go home. Thousands have been terminated from agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services in recent days — a move that could threaten disease response.

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  • Health

Cuts to federally funded health care agencies drive outpour of support for affected workers

In recent days, more than a thousand employees at the Atlanta-based CDC and more at other agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services have been let go.

February 19, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Drugs and medical devices for pets and other animals go through approval processes through the FDA. Staff handling parts of this work lost their jobs in the recent round of firings from the Trump administration.

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  • Health

FDA staff handling drug safety for pets and livestock lost jobs in Trump firings

The fired staffers were tasked with making sure medications given to animals work well and are safe.

February 19, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Sydney Lupkin
IVF is a process that involves retrieving eggs from ovaries, fertilizing them with sperm in a lab, and then transferring embryos into the uterus.

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  • Health

Trump wants to lower the cost of IVF. A new executive order seeks ideas to do that

President Trump campaigned on lowering the cost of IVF, after a controversial ruling made the treatment stop in Alabama for a short time.

February 19, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Diane Webber
In this photo illustration, vials of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine are displayed on a counter at a Walgreens Pharmacy in California during an outbreak in 2015.

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  • News

Measles spreads in Texas. And, how U.S. funding cuts could benefit China

A measles outbreak in West Texas has sparked concern as cases have more than doubled since last week. And, China seeks to support pro-democracy groups in the U.S.

February 19, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
A 3-year-old receives a COVID-19 vaccine on June 21, 2022.

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  • Health

A pediatrician warns of 'long-lasting' consequences of RFK Jr. leading HHS

Adam Ratner predicts the appointment of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: "It is much easier to scare people than to unscare them," he says.

February 18, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
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