Washington Times - Health
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Here's where jobs and programs are being cut at the nation's top health agencies
Thousands of people responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, monitoring the safety of...
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NIH bans six Chinese labs from animal experiments with U.S. funding
The National Institutes of Health has quietly booted a Chinese lab that performed grisly experiments on beagles from its list of facilities...
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HHS hits nine Planned Parenthood affiliates with funding freeze
The Department of Health and Human Services has halted millions in grant payments to a maze of organizations, including nine Planned Parenthood...
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Measles spreads to central Texas; 5 states have active outbreaks
Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico reported new measles cases Tuesday, with the outbreak expanding for the first time into central Texas.
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Democrat-led states sue Trump administration to block $12 billion cut to health grants
Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for clawing back roughly $12 billion in...
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There's a new push to put whole milk back in school meals. Here's what you should know
More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals to slow obesity in American kids and boost their health, momentum is...
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FDA's top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency's leadership
The Food and Drug Administration's chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post as sweeping cuts hit the agency and staffers across the...
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Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
There are just two Planned Parenthood clinics in South Carolina, but every year they take hundreds of low-income patients who need things like...
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Tears and tail wags: Inmates reunite with service dogs they raised
Hugs, tears, barking and tail wagging abounded at San Quentin's prison when two black Labradors reunited with the incarcerated men who helped raise...
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Layoffs begin at U.S. health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food
Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in a major overhaul...
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A stroke survivor speaks again with the help of an experimental brain-computer implant
Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time.
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Military review of fitness standards will find array of tests, but higher requirements for combat
The defense secretary's decision to review military standards on combat and physical fitness and appearance opens a Pandora's box of widely...