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The US Department of Health and Human Services is terminating a contract with drugmaker Moderna to develop a vaccine to protect against bird flu amid the agency’s broader efforts to reevaluate therapies that use mRNA technology.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that the Covid-19 vaccine will no longer be among the recommended vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization schedule.

Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory.

Over the past year, Christina Ernst has drawn millions of TikTok views for her whimsical fashion projects that incorporate coding and circuitry. Through She Builds Robots, she hopes to encourage more young women to enter STEM fields.

The federal government may have partial answers on the purported causes of autism by this fall, but not the full picture, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised in April.

There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re commonplace now, but the practice was considered experimental only a half-century ago.

This year’s festival will largely be experienced via social media, but photographer Derek Ridgers remembers capturing a different era of the event — in the 1980s and 1990s, without a single cell phone in sight.

The story of transplants has always been one of altruism. After all, organs can be neither sold nor purchased. They can only be donated as a gift of life.

The red carpet has officially been rolled out, and already celebrities are pushing the boundaries of this year’s new dress code on voluminous dresses with long trains.

Apartment owners claim the super-skinny tower’s developers failed to disclose the extent of damage that has resulted in flooding and impacted the value of their multimillion-dollar properties.

With the future of her cancer treatment in limbo, Natalie Phelps doesn’t know how much longer she can wait.

Salma Hayek’s baby-blue cropped cardigan — worn without an undershirt — has become a sartorial touchstone, particularly as Y2K fashion has resurfaced.

A Senate committee report by minority staff, and obtained by CNN, slams the Trump administration for terminating some funding for research, firing thousands of federal workers and removing certain scientific data from government websites.

Megan Thee Stallion is no stranger to taking risks on the red carpet and Saturday’s Gold Gala in Los Angeles was no exception.

As workers set up stations at North Division High School’s cafeteria to test children’s blood for lead, a group of frustrated parents and community activists gathered just outside the main entrance. They carried handmade signs: “Milwaukee. Beer, Cheese, and Lead Poisoning” and “Test All Schools for Lead Now.”

Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick are back for “Another Simple Favor.” This time, a destination wedding on a sun-drenched Italian island is the backdrop to intrigue, murderous intent, and floppy hats the size of small parachutes.

This is only the second year cases have been this high since the disease was declared eliminated in the US a quarter-century ago, and a large multistate outbreak continues to grow, putting the nation on track for what could be the worst year since 2000.

Community fluoridation – considered one of the top public health success stories of the last century – has been banned in Utah, with a new law taking effect Wednesday.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris made her debut appearance at the Met Gala in New York wearing a custom black-and-white gown by Off-White — though she and Doug Emhoff skipped the red carpet entirely.

A new study found that the immunotherapy treatment worked against some types of cancers, allowing patients to avoid surgery and other types of more invasive treatment to cure their disease.

At her one and only Met Gala appearance, Princess Diana made a statement of post-divorce independence by altering her Dior gown into something far more risqué than its designer had intended.

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it aims to accomplish within four years a scientific feat that hasn’t been achieved for the past 45: the development of a universal flu vaccine that could protect against multiple virus strains with pandemic potential, including H5N1 avian influenza.

A slew of celebrities have been opting for outfits with exaggerated shoulders and sharp, tailored cuts.

The US Department of Health and Human Services said it will require that all new vaccines be tested in placebo-controlled trials before they’re licensed for use, raising urgent questions about the system used to clear updated Covid-19 boosters each respiratory virus season.

In today’s increasingly masculine political climate, some men are eager to repress anything about their appearance that could be construed as overtly feminine.

Milwaukee announced Monday the temporary closure of two more schools as the city works to address a lead crisis in its public schools.

Milwaukee announced Monday the temporary closure of two more schools as the city works to address a lead crisis in its public schools.