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A Public Health-Minded Senator Asks: What Comes After Trump and Kennedy?

7 octobre 2026 à 14:44
Senator Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.

© Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times

Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, at the Capitol last month.

Canada Halts Plan to Allow Medically Assisted Death for the Mentally Ill

7 octobre 2026 à 14:36
People who have mental illness alone will not qualify for assisted death, but patients who have other conditions and expect to have a cognitive decline can make an advanced request.

© Blair Gable/Reuters

Sean Fraser, Canada’s minister of justice, said parliament will pass legislation to bar people whose sole condition is a mental illness from seeking medically assisted death.
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