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Los Angeles Times - Science

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RFK Jr. makes sweeping cuts in federal health programs, including CDC, FDA

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Southern California healthcare agencies fear cuts to HIV prevention will cost lives

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Top FDA vaccine official resigns, criticizes Kennedy for promoting 'misinformation and lies'

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Planned Parenthood St. Louis resumes surgical abortions, while Missouri blocks others

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Texas reaches 400 measles cases as U.S. sees outbreaks in 5 states

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Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water

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The most important part of the ocean you've never heard of

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Trump vows to immediately ramp up U.S. production of 'beautiful, clean coal'

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Musk team targets nearly two dozen environmental offices for closure in California

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COVID-19 Pandemic: News, Links & Resources

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A pediatrician's dilemma: Should a practice kick out unvaccinated kids?

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'Show up and share': How one UCLA ICU helps patients and staff live with dying

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'Enough is enough': Scientists from UCLA, USC protest Trump's policy changes

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Stressed? Sick? Swiss town lets doctors prescribe museum visits as art therapy for patients

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Trump's FDA pick made his name by bashing the medical establishment. Soon he may be leading it

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Long COVID is solvable, but we need more clinical trials

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed and sworn in as the nation's health secretary

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RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it

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Senators challenge Robert Kennedy Jr. on vaccines in confirmation hearing as health secretary

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The CIA believes COVID likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding

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Trump's first term brought world-changing vaccine. His second could bring retreat

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Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, critic of COVID mandates, to lead National Institutes of Health

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Don't be stupid: Skipping your COVID booster could reduce your IQ

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Palisades and Eaton firefighters had elevated blood levels of mercury and lead, according to an early study

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Deadly, drug-resistant fungus CDC calls 'urgent threat' is spreading in hospitals

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CDC to slash infectious-disease funding for states; California impact uncertain

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Researchers in limbo as Columbia bows to Trump's demands in bid to restore $400 million in federal funds

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Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL

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Trump administration cuts to NOAA threaten efforts to save sea lions from toxic plankton

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Pope's doctors considered stopping treatment to 'let him go' after breathing crisis

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UNAIDS director proposes that President Trump make an 'amazing deal' to end HIV

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Tuolumne County confirms two measles cases, warns of exposure at high school and emergency room

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New strain of bird flu wipes out Mississippi poultry farm; human flu may offer immunity

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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space

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