Health
States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.
Read MoreA 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
Read MoreDr. Jay Bhattacharya will direct the N.I.H., and Dr. Martin A. Makary will lead the F.D.A. Both have reputations as medical contrarians.
Read MoreAfter the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.
Read MorePublic health leaders are horrified by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s approach to measles, but government and industry are responding to him.
Read MoreThe agency OK’d an artificial vessel to restore blood flow in patients, even though its own scientists flagged questionable study results and potentially fatal ruptures of the product.
Read MoreCurrently the agency’s acting director, Dr. Monarez would be the first nonphysician to head the agency in more than 50 years.
Read MoreMarried to Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, she became a proponent of electroshock therapy after unsuccessful treatments for alcoholism and depression.
Read MoreChildren’s Health Defense, founded by the health secretary, had published online a vaccine-safety page that looked like the agency’s but that suggested links to autism.
Read MoreSenior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
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