Q: Several people in my family have had cancer, and I’m terrified of getting it, too. How can I reduce my odds? It’s true that having a family history of cancer raises your risk of developing the disease. But getting sick is not inevitable. In a recent study, researchers usedContinue Reading
An advisory committee of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is set to meet Tuesday to discuss vaccines for RSV, COVID and others. Jeff Amy/AP Jeff Amy/AP For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, vaccine advisers toContinue Reading
Chicken is processed differently in the U.S. than the EU and U.K., causing Europeans to be skeptical of American “chlorinated chicken.” Krug Studios/Corbis RF Stills/Getty Images Krug Studios/Corbis RF Stills/Getty Images When President Trump recently griped about Europe’s distaste for buying American chicken, his comments touched on a long-running andContinue Reading
Middle-aged and older adults who sought hospital or emergency room care because of cannabis use were almost twice as likely to develop dementia over the next five years, compared with similar people in the general population, a large Canadian study reported on Monday. When compared with adults who sought careContinue Reading
On the last day of March, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital began an operation that they hoped might lead to a permanent change in how kidneys are transplanted in people. That morning’s patient was not a person. It was a pig, lying anesthetized on a table. The pig was missingContinue Reading
During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching, sometimes subtle steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety. The National Institutes of Health halted fundingContinue Reading
Mental health workers protest outside the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on a strip of Sunset Blvd. They are heading into their sixth month of striking over wages, benefits and time in between patients. Katia Riddle / NPR Katia Riddle / NPR In many ways, it was the usualContinue Reading
In a speech broadcast to the Food and Drug Administration’s Maryland campus on Friday morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced himself as the nation’s health secretary with a meandering speech touching on everything from birds of prey to pollution in Lake Erie to the C.I.A. Mr. Kennedy told the agencyContinue Reading
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, pledged on Thursday to seek out experts globally to discover the reasons for the increasing rates of autism in the United States. “We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world,” Mr.Continue Reading
Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said on Friday. Towana Looney, 53, lived with the kidney for 130 days, which is longer than anyone else has tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. SheContinue Reading
