BREAKING: President Trump pulls the stalled nomination for Casey Means as surgeon general and says he'll put forth Nicole Saphier. https://t.co/OVvjq32bkJ
The Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, is working to hire a researcher and friend who wants the agency to add new warnings to antidepressants about unproven pregnancy risks, The Associated Press has learned. https://t.co/yLwoSj0Xjn
A European Medicines Agency committee gave its nod to acoziborole, made by Sanofi. The decision is seen as a crucial step to making the medicine available in Congo, the country with the most sleeping sickness cases. https://t.co/5MQ1UOWW8k
The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating. https://t.co/d76KPeuUAM
More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its rollback of vaccine recommendations for children, calling the move an illegal threat to public health. https://t.co/p4aGWAg45Y
An unmistakable pall hangs over the Georgia’s Capitol, with leaders earnestly asking one another whether the FBI’s raid was a prelude to election officials being frogmarched out in handcuffs. Democrats were in no mood to tiptoe around the moment. #gapol
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Guinea-Bissau is suspending a Trump administration-backed hepatitis B vaccine study on newborns in the West African country, pending an ethical review, the health minister said Thursday. https://t.co/9cVbnEv5KI
ProPublica: Last year, three of Starship’s five launches exploded at unexpected points on their flight paths, twice raining flaming debris over congested commercial airways and disrupting flights. https://t.co/PdPiGIcb1s
A rule change proposed by the Florida Department of Health would eliminate requirements that Florida children receive the hepatitis B, varicella and Haemophilus influenzae type b or Hib vaccines in order to attend public or private K-12 schools. https://t.co/kGD1p5gehe
ICYMI: Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, public health and some other fields face tighter federal student loan limits under the plan because it doesn’t consider them professional programs. https://t.co/kcUVpt44T4
A Washington state resident is believed to be the first person to die from a rare strain of bird flu, but state health officials said Friday the risk to the public is low. https://t.co/AwWgXUIYDB