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South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.

17 juin 2025 à 00:01
The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to H.I.V. — and could affect American drug companies, too.

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In Johannesburg, the hallways of a once-bustling center of medical research have fallen silent.

Kennedy’s New Vaccine Advisers Helped Lawyers Raise Doubts About Their Safety

14 juin 2025 à 08:55
Three of the health secretary’s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.

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Mr. Kennedy said the new vaccine panelists would “exercise independent judgment” and “review safety and efficacy data for the current schedule” of vaccines.
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  • Mpox Surges in Sierra Leone
    West African nations are struggling to track and treat infections, and experts warn the outbreak is rapidly spreading, while the United States is cutting global vaccination efforts.
     

Mpox Surges in Sierra Leone

13 juin 2025 à 16:45
West African nations are struggling to track and treat infections, and experts warn the outbreak is rapidly spreading, while the United States is cutting global vaccination efforts.

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Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.

Kennedy Announces Eight New Members of C.D.C. Vaccine Advisory Panel

11 juin 2025 à 17:41
The appointments of at least two of the experts are likely to draw an uproar from pro-vaccine groups for their criticism of federal scientists and the Biden administration’s Covid vaccine policies.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington in May.

Party Politics Is Said to Have Played a Role in Kennedy’s Firing of Vaccine Advisers

10 juin 2025 à 23:23
The health secretary cited financial conflicts, but a White House official and someone familiar with his thinking said he was also concerned about ties to Democrats.

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Robert F. Kennedy. Jr., the health secretary and a longtime critic of vaccines, during a House hearing last month.

Used in Covid Shots, mRNA May Help Rid the Body of H.I.V.

5 juin 2025 à 15:04
A new study shows how the technology deployed in Covid vaccines helped scientists coax the virus out of hiding.

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Colored scanning electron micrograph of a whole T-lymphocyte white blood cell infected with the H.I.V. virus, in red.
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