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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A new study shows how the technology deployed in Covid vaccines helped scientists coax the virus out of hiding.

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The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, “do not make Americans safer.”

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