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Some passengers are unaware that some airplanes spray pesticides to prevent insect-borne diseases. Here's what to know.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, announced a restructuring of the ...

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A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official is telling staff to start planning for the agency’s splintering.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's panel of outside experts on Wednesday recommended the use of ...

The Trump administration is formulating plans to cut roughly a third of the federal health budget, eliminate dozens of ...

On 15 April 2025, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that autism diagnoses among children ...

When the Trump administration announced in February 2025 that it was cutting 10% of staff at the Centers for Disease Control ...

To estimate how common autism is, the CDC checked health and school records for 8-year-olds, because most cases are diagnosed by that age. Other researchers have their own estimates, but experts say ...

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