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  • Advisory Committee for Immunization Practice chair Dr. Martin Kulldorff speaks during an Advisory Committee for Immunization Practice meeting at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 18, 2025.
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    CDC advisers vote to recommend against combo vaccine for young children, delay vote on newborn hepatitis B shot
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  • Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez, who was ousted after resisting changes to vaccine policy that were advanced by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and that she believed contradicted scientific evidence, walks to testify before a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 17, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
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    Ex-CDC director tells senators that RFK Jr. required political sign-off on decisions, called for firings without cause
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    RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel expected to recommend delaying hepatitis B shot for newborns
  • Chagas largely spreads when triatomine bugs, commonly known as kissing bugs, bite a human while they’re sleeping.
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  • Juliette Lesko has been battling cancer for two years. A clinical trial her family was hoping to place her in has stopped accepting new patients, following federal funding cuts.
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    ‘The rug has been pulled out from under us’: Cancer research funding turmoil leaves families scrambling
  • First on CNN: Ob/gyn group advises against cannabis use during pregnancy, recommends universal screening
  • HHS moves to shut down major organ donation group in latest steps to reform nation’s transplant system
  • Gum disease and the Mediterranean diet are connected to inflammation. Here’s how
  • The US is tracking 14 potential rabies outbreaks in 20 states. Here’s what to know
  • Recommending Covid-19 vaccines for everyone in the US could save thousands more lives than limiting to high-risk groups
  • It’s not just a rich kid’s problem: Eating disorders triggered by growing food insecurity
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  • The ship's wheel sits on the lake bottom just off the King's stern. The top of the King's stern, including the pilot house below apart as a massive rush of air was forced backward when her iron ore cargo slid forward as she sank.
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  • The Earth-size exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e, depicted at the lower right, is silhouetted as it passes in front of its flaring host star in this artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system.
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