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Kennedy’s new vaccine panel alarms pediatricians with inquiries into long-settled questions
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisers alarmed pediatricians Wednesday by announcing inquiries into some long-settled questions about children's shots.
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One more sizzling hot day for the eastern US before temperatures plunge 30 degrees
A record-smashing heat wave broiled the U.S. East for another day Wednesday, even as thermometers were forecast to soon plunge by as many as 30 degrees in the same areas.
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There’s something toxic in the Okefenokee food chain, UGA study finds
There's something in the water — and in the gators.
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Early-season heat dome brings highest temperatures in years to parts of Eastern US
An intense and nearly historic weather pattern is cooking much of America under a dangerous heat dome this week with triple-digit temperatures in places that haven't been so hot in more than a decade.
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The world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV could stop transmission — if people can get it
The U.S. has approved the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, the first step in an anticipated global rollout that could protect millions – although it's unclear how many in the U.S. and abroad will get access to the powerful new option.
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Kennedy’s new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.
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Top RFK Jr. aide attacks US health system while running company that promotes wellness alternatives
A top aide to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has built a following by accusing the nation's top medical institutions of financial corruption. But Calley Means, now serving as a White House aide, has his own financial stake in the nation's health system.
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RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.
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Elon Musk pulls back on threat to withdraw Dragon spacecraft
As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world's richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station.
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Private lunar lander from Japan crashes into moon in failed mission
A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon.
