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Researchers laid off in April were putting the finishing touches on in-depth HIV surveys that guide treatment and prevention. Some staff have been reinstated, but data remains in limbo.
As part of the Trump administration’s widespread health spending reductions, any remaining grant funds to rural health clinics were rescinded.
In the United States, extreme heat is the primary cause of weather-related deaths, posing a significant threat to public health.
Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health wrote that the Trump administration's actions are causing 'a dramatic reduction in life-saving research.'
As new diseases emerge more rapidly, and climate change increases other threats to health, officials may be able to use AI to practice public health with greater speed, precision, and effectiveness.
Countries that produced their own vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic had first dibs on the shots. While the U.S., home to Moderna and Pfizer, rolled out second doses of mRNA vaccines in 2021, hundreds of thousands of people in countries that didn’t manufacture vaccines died waiting.
The cancellation of the funds comes weeks ahead of the FDA’s June 19 deadline for deciding on approval of lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable drug to prevent HIV.
Pregnant women who contracted Covid-19 were more likely to become severely ill and to be hospitalized than non-pregnant women of the same age and demographics.
The FDA will encourage new clinical trials on the widely used vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults. The requirements could cost drugmakers tens of millions of dollars and are likely to leave boosters largely out of reach for hundreds of millions of Americans this fall.
A GOP tax-and-spending bill the House approved Thursday would slash federal Medicaid reimbursement for states that offer health coverage to immigrants without legal status.
Primary and urgent care clinics are often the first to see measles outbreaks, but most are insufficiently prepared. Many doctors practicing today have never seen a case.
One thing experts from a wide range of fields, from basic science to public health, agree on: The damage will be varied and immense.
A disruption in federal funds has jeopardized HIV testing and outreach in Mississippi, and researchers warn of a resurgence of the epidemic in the region.
While some experts were pleased that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supported any vaccine project, they said the grant contravened sound scientific policy, appeared arbitrary, and raised questions about conflicts of interest.
A look into how public health labs have served as a backbone of the system, the urgency of recent funding cuts, and the consequences for public safety.
In many cases, this money flowed to addiction recovery services, which go beyond traditional treatment to help people with substance use disorders rebuild their lives.
Beliefs about the safety of the measles vaccine and the threat of the disease are sharply polarized. About two-thirds of Republican-leaning parents are unaware of an uptick in measles cases this year, while about two-thirds of Democratic ones knew about it, according to a new survey.
In the state, Black women are at least three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. The county's initiatives aimed at reducing racial disparities work but depend on federal dollars — money that might not flow amid budget cuts and a push to end DEI programs.
The terminations have spared no part of the country, politically or geographically. Of the organizations that had grants cut in the first month, about 40% are in states President Donald Trump won in November.
We have more effective tools for HIV prevention than ever before. But the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the programs that deliver them could squander an historic opportunity to end the epidemic.