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    Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania are first measles-related deaths in US this year
  • 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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    Record share of kindergartners missed required vaccines last year as Trump executive order takes aim at state mandates
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    Roche, Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s blood test gets FDA clearance
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    The way patients write messages to doctors might affect the response
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    ‘Cancer has taken so much … but it’s also given us a few things’: One family’s journey
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  • In this photo illustration, a positive Covid home test is shown in San Anselmo, California, on March 10, 2025.
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    The traditional respiratory virus season hasn’t started, but Covid is already climbing
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    1 in 4 former NFL players who died from 2016 to 2021 had CTE, study estimates
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    Tracking measles cases in the United States
  • On March 23, 2015, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) together with the World Health Organization started a clinical trial in Guinea to test the safety, efficacy and capacity substance to provoke an immune response of the anti-Ebola vaccine rVSV-EBOV.
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    Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention – but misinformation about mRNA vaccines threatens their potential
  • Amid high profile news stories related to maternal mental health, women are starting to share their own experiences more openly.
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    Maternal mental health is making headlines. Experts say it’s long overdue
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    Excess belly fat may reveal more about longevity in older adults than BMI. A doctor explains
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    The Ganges shark’s last refuge has been found. Now comes the fight to save it
  • SpaceX's rocket Starship lifts off for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, on July 24.
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    SpaceX plans to build the ‘biggest launch site on Earth’ for $100 billion in Louisiana
  • This photo taken on Aug. 19, 2026 shows the combination of the Chang'e-7 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y14 carrier rocket being transferred vertically to the launching area at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province.
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    China postpones launch of unprecedented water-hunting moon mission amid space race
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    Popular cleaning products with germ-killing chemicals may be dangerous to health
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