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The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined

Anticipating what China's government will do has gotten even more difficult since the pandemic, as relations with the United States have deteriorated

The FDA's Center for Tobacco Products, which is not taxpayer-funded, oversees an industry whose products kill nearly 500,000 Americans each year

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails

Plans would allow U.S. immigration officials to swiftly expel migrants on the grounds that they could spread diseases like tuberculosis

PM confirms rise in military spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027–three years earlier than planned

- A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19

CDC, FDA are participating virtually in gathering seen as critical to public health

The order directs Trump's assistant for domestic policy to generate a list of policy ideas for "protecting IVF access and aggressively reducing costs

On Tuesday RFK Jr. vowed to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule that prevents measles, polio, and other dangerous diseases

The CDC estimates at least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths from the flu since the start of October

"The beaches were just loaded with carcasses. We saw basically every [elephant seal] pup dead. We estimate about 18,000 dead baby elephant seals."