Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care
NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally. (Image credit: Erik McGregor)
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The UK medicines regulator has given approval for an experimental vaccine to be tested on healthy adults.
A new vaccine to tackle Ebola will now be tested on people.
FDA approves at-home starter dose of Eisai-Biogen Alzheimer's drug Reuters
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