Opinion | What Kennedy Gets Right, And Wrong, About Antidepressants
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Opinion | What Kennedy Gets Right, And Wrong, About Antidepressants

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Like every psychiatrist, I have patients for whom antidepressants are transformative, even lifesaving. But I also see a messier, less advertised side of these medications. There are patients with sexual side effects that they hadn’t known could be caused by their antidepressants because…

Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters
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Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan that would require placebo-controlled studies for all new vaccines, surprising some experts who noted that such testing already routinely took place. In a statement, Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and…

Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative
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Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After an outcry from scientists and experts, federal officials on Thursday said they would restore funding to the Women’s Health Initiative, one of the largest and longest studies of women’s health ever carried out. The findings of the W.H.I. and its randomized controlled…

Trump and Some of His Cabinet Members Attend U.F.C. Fight in Miami
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Trump and Some of His Cabinet Members Attend U.F.C. Fight in Miami

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump, some of his cabinet members and his adviser Elon Musk sat ringside in Miami late Saturday night at the Ultimate Fighting Championship event — a spectacle of violence, throbbing music and cheering crowds that the president has long admired. It’s the…

RFK Jr. to Kick Off MAHA Tour on Fighting Chronic Disease
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RFK Jr. to Kick Off MAHA Tour on Fighting Chronic Disease

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A day after attending the funeral of an unvaccinated child who died of measles, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will kick off a tour through Southwestern states on Monday, spotlighting initiatives that emphasize nutrition and lifestyle choices as tools for combating disease….

Kennedy’s Plan to Send Health Officials to ‘Indian Country’ Angers Native Leaders
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Kennedy’s Plan to Send Health Officials to ‘Indian Country’ Angers Native Leaders

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a show on Facebook of his meeting with American Indian and Alaska Native leaders last month, declaring himself “very inspired” and committed to improving the Indian Health Service, which he says has “always been treated as…

Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs
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Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration on Friday rejected a Biden plan that would have required Medicare and Medicaid to cover obesity drugs and expanded access for millions of people. Under the law that established Medicare’s Part D drug benefits, the program was forbidden from paying…

C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say
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C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The extensive layoffs of federal health workers that began on Tuesday will greatly curtail the scope and influence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the world’s premier public health agency, an outcome long sought by conservatives critical of its handling of…

Opinion | The Story of One Woman Who Fell Prey to the Medical Freedom Movement
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Opinion | The Story of One Woman Who Fell Prey to the Medical Freedom Movement

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In 2007, more than 1,440,000 Americans were diagnosed with cancer. Dawn Kali was one of them. Then in her mid-30s and raising three kids, Ms. Kali’s natural warmth and openness made her a popular waitress at the raw-food restaurant where she worked in…