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WHO member countries agree on a draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to try to avoid COVID-19 mistakes
LONDON (AP) — Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization’s member countries agreed on a draft “pandemic treaty” that sets guidelines for how the…
Translating what Kennedy’s anti-vaccine allies hear in his response to the measles outbreak
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is threading the needle between his agency’s role as a neutral arbiter of science and the rhetoric of anti-vaccine activists. That’s according to doctors, public health experts and…
FDA OKs trial of pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for liver failure
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can rest and maybe heal.
The first-of-its-kind…