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  • In this photo illustration, Ruth Jones, Immunization Nurse, holds a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (brand name: Comirnaty) at Borinquen Health Care Center on May 29, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he will no longer recommend that healthy children and pregnant people get COVID-19 shots.
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  • An assistant conducts cancer vaccine research in the lab at the Moderna Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. The forthcoming RSV shot, expected to get US regulatory approval this month, is Moderna's first chance to show the versatility of mRNA technology to more effectively treat and prevent a range of illnesses from the flu to cancer. It will be the first mRNA product for something other than Covid. Photographer: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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  • President Donald Trump prepares to sign an executive order about vaccines, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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  • US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday that would recommend breaking up the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots and unilaterally overhauling the national childhood vaccination recommendations.
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    Trump wants to split the MMR vaccine into separate shots. Experts say it’s a bad idea
  • Postpartum “I Gave Birth” wristbands gained traction across the country through health
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  • Karl Deisseroth, a renowned bioengineer, neuroscientist, and psychiatrist at Stanford University, has created the Human Neural Circuitry program in an effort to better understand and treat some of the most baffling mysteries of the mind.
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  • President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order about vaccines as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
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  • People dressed in protective gear lower the coffin containing the remains of a person who died of Ebola, during a burial service in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Congo, on Tuesday.
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  • The small size and light to dark brown color of the polyphagous shot-hole borer makes it difficult to detect. Females are 1.8-2.5 mm long while males are only 1.5-1.67 mm long.
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    This ‘perfect invader’ is spreading across the world. It’s costing economies billions
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