Dr. Means, President Trump’s new pick for surgeon general, has focused on the prevalence of chronic diseases and called on the government to scale back on childhood vaccines.

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08.05.2025

Efforts Grow to Thwart mRNA Therapies as RFK Jr. Pushes Vaccine Wariness - The New York Times

Therapies involving mRNA, a key to Covid vaccines, hold great potential in treating several diseases, but some lawmakers want to ban them and the government is cutting funding.

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08.05.2025

Migrants Are Skipping Medical Care, Fearing ICE, Doctors Say - The New York Times

Since President Trump announced plans for mass deportations and rescinded protections for hospitals and clinics, health care facilities have seen a jump in no-shows.

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08.05.2025

Trump Has Called for More Babies but Dismissed Fertility Experts - The New York Times

The research team studying how to improve I.V.F. was a casualty of cutbacks at federal health agencies.

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08.05.2025

What to Know About mRNA Vaccines - The New York Times

We asked experts about how the technology works, its safety and its potential in medicine.

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08.05.2025

Genetic Study Retraces Covid’s Origins in Bats - The New York Times

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.

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08.05.2025

RFK Jr. Announces New Database for Research Into ‘Root Causes’ of Autism - The New York Times

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, alarming researchers and parents.

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07.05.2025

N.I.H. Bans New Funding From U.S. Scientists to Partners Abroad - The New York Times

Generally, researchers will no longer be allowed to direct federal funds to international collaborators.

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07.05.2025

Philip Sunshine, 94, Dies; Physician Who Pioneered Treatment of Premature Babies - The New York Times

A founder of neonatology, he helped revolutionize the care of preterm and critically ill newborns. “We were able to keep babies alive that would not have survived,” he said.

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06.05.2025

Cyberattack on UnitedHealth Leaves Medical Providers in Debt - The New York Times

The company lent roughly $9 billion to practices affected by a vast cyberattack on its payment systems last year. Medical practices are now suing the health care colossus, saying it is pressuring them to repay funds.

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06.05.2025

Trump Administration Asks Court to Dismiss Abortion Pill Case - The New York Times

The request echoes the position the Biden administration took in the case in January, surprising some observers.

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06.05.2025

As Trump Targets Researchers, Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists - The New York Times

The continent’s leaders are hoping to benefit as the Trump administration cuts support for research and threatens universities such as Harvard and Columbia with the freezing of federal funds.

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05.05.2025

Sybil Shainwald, Lawyer Who Fought for Women’s Health, Dies at 96 - The New York Times

After taking part in a landmark case against the manufacturers of the synthetic hormone DES, she represented many other victims of harmful drugs and devices.

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05.05.2025

How Trump’s Cuts Are Stifling L.G.B.T.Q. Health Research - The New York Times

The Trump administration has systematically stripped funding from research into the health of L.G.B.T.Q. people. Benjamin Mueller, a reporter covering health and medicine for The New York Times, describes how hundreds of such projects were abruptly halted, stranding participants in experiments, and leading to lawsuits that argue that the administration had not offered a legal justification for the cuts.

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04.05.2025

Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health - The New York Times

More than $800 million in N.I.H. grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.

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04.05.2025

Trump’s V.A. Squeezes Mental Health Care in Crowed Offices, Raising Privacy Concerns - The New York Times

Clinicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs say the president’s return-to-office order is forcing many of them to work from makeshift spaces where it is difficult to guarantee patient privacy.

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03.05.2025

RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination - The New York Times

Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.

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03.05.2025

Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him 200 Times - The New York Times

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other deadly species.

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03.05.2025

Trump Budget Cuts Funding for CDC - The New York Times

Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.

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03.05.2025

Trump Proposes Slashing Domestic Spending to the Lowest Level of the Modern Era - The New York Times

One expert said the consequences would be “catastrophic” if Congress enacts the White House agenda of sweeping budget cuts.

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03.05.2025

Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: There Are Perils in ‘Elderspeak’ - The New York Times

A new training program teaches aides to stop baby talk and address older people as adults.

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03.05.2025

Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health - The New York Times

Congress authorized the money in a bipartisan breakthrough around addressing gun violence after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers.

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02.05.2025

U.S. Prosecutors Accuse Large Insurers of Paying Kickbacks for Private Medicare Plans - The New York Times

The Justice Department accused large insurers of colluding with national brokers to steer older people and those with disabilities toward coverage that might not offer the best medical care.

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02.05.2025

Federal Report Denounces Gender Treatments for Adolescents - The New York Times

The H.H.S. review may set the stage for additional restrictions on gender-affirming care. Critics described it as an ideological statement.

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02.05.2025

Overlooked No More: Joyce Brown, Whose Struggle Redefined the Rights of the Homeless - The New York Times

She successfully challenged her involuntary commitment to Bellevue Hospital in 1987, setting a precedent for homeless people that remains relevant today.

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02.05.2025

Upheaval in Washington Hinders Campaign Against Bird Flu - The New York Times

Determined to cut costs and manage communications, the Trump administration is moving too slowly to contain the virus, experts say.

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02.05.2025

Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters - The New York Times

The plans amount to an extraordinary flex of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s power as health secretary to make decisions ordinarily left to career scientists at the Food and Drug Administration.

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01.05.2025

Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off. The Ref Took a Beating. - The New York Times

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way.

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30.04.2025

Young People Are Not As Happy As They Used to Be, Study Finds - The New York Times

New data collected from more than 200,000 people across the world shows that young people aren’t as happy as they used to be.

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30.04.2025

Humans’ Wounds Heal Much More Slowly Than Other Mammals’ - The New York Times

We naked apes need Band-Aids, but shedding the fur that speeds healing in other mammals may have helped us evolve other abilities.

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30.04.2025

Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines - The New York Times

In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.

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30.04.2025

Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions - The New York Times

With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists.

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29.04.2025

Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research - The New York Times

Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized.

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28.04.2025

Immunotherapy Drug Spares Cancer Patients From Grisly Surgeries and Harsh Therapies - The New York Times

For a limited group of cancer patients who have solid tumors in the stomach, rectum, esophagus and other organs, an immunotherapy trial offered stunning results.

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27.04.2025

Europe’s Pharma Industry Braces for Pain as Trump Tariff Threat Looms - The New York Times

Medicines and chemicals are huge exports for European Union countries. That makes the sector a weak spot as trade tensions drag on.

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26.04.2025

David Paton, Creator of Flying Eye Hospital, Dies at 94 - The New York Times

An idealistic ophthalmologist, he came up with an ingenious way to treat blindness in far-flung places: by outfitting an airplane with an operating room.

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26.04.2025

What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger - The New York Times

Studies in neuroscience with applications to humans offer clues about what makes us start eating, and when we stop.

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26.04.2025

F.D.A. Scientists Are Reinstated at Agency Food Safety Labs - The New York Times

After 20 percent of the agency’s work force was cut, federal health officials have decided to bring back some experts and review firings to fill gaps in critical roles.

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26.04.2025

‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal - The New York Times

The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.

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26.04.2025

Trump vs. Science - The New York Times

We explain the administration’s cuts to research.

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Who Is Casey Means, Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General? - The New York Times

Efforts Grow to Thwart mRNA Therapies as RFK Jr. Pushes Vaccine Wariness - The New York Times

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Trump Has Called for More Babies but Dismissed Fertility Experts - The New York Times

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Genetic Study Retraces Covid’s Origins in Bats - The New York Times

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N.I.H. Bans New Funding From U.S. Scientists to Partners Abroad - The New York Times

Philip Sunshine, 94, Dies; Physician Who Pioneered Treatment of Premature Babies - The New York Times

Cyberattack on UnitedHealth Leaves Medical Providers in Debt - The New York Times

Trump Administration Asks Court to Dismiss Abortion Pill Case - The New York Times

As Trump Targets Researchers, Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists - The New York Times

Sybil Shainwald, Lawyer Who Fought for Women’s Health, Dies at 96 - The New York Times

How Trump’s Cuts Are Stifling L.G.B.T.Q. Health Research - The New York Times

Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health - The New York Times

Trump’s V.A. Squeezes Mental Health Care in Crowed Offices, Raising Privacy Concerns - The New York Times

RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination - The New York Times

Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him 200 Times - The New York Times

Trump Budget Cuts Funding for CDC - The New York Times

Trump Proposes Slashing Domestic Spending to the Lowest Level of the Modern Era - The New York Times

Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: There Are Perils in ‘Elderspeak’ - The New York Times

Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health - The New York Times

U.S. Prosecutors Accuse Large Insurers of Paying Kickbacks for Private Medicare Plans - The New York Times

Federal Report Denounces Gender Treatments for Adolescents - The New York Times

Overlooked No More: Joyce Brown, Whose Struggle Redefined the Rights of the Homeless - The New York Times

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Young People Are Not As Happy As They Used to Be, Study Finds - The New York Times

Humans’ Wounds Heal Much More Slowly Than Other Mammals’ - The New York Times

Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines - The New York Times

Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions - The New York Times

Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research - The New York Times

Immunotherapy Drug Spares Cancer Patients From Grisly Surgeries and Harsh Therapies - The New York Times

Europe’s Pharma Industry Braces for Pain as Trump Tariff Threat Looms - The New York Times

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What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger - The New York Times

F.D.A. Scientists Are Reinstated at Agency Food Safety Labs - The New York Times

‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal - The New York Times

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