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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picked eight new members for a panel that helps set national vaccine policies. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Republican Senate leaders met with President Donald Trump to discuss Trump's "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" on June 4. Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. (center), speaks alongside Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., (left) and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, outside of the West Wing of the White House. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Agar plates with salmonella cultures ready for testing in the Medical Microbiology at the Houston Health and Human Services Department on June 18, 2015, in Houston. Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images hide caption
N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson holds a gun lock at an event about safe storage of firearms. North Carolina is among 30 states with the most permissive gun laws, according to a new study. Travis Long/The News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images hide caption
Justin Carlyle, age 23, photographed on the street in Kensington, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, has lived with addiction to fentanyl and other drugs for a decade. After a decade when overdoses devastated young Americans, drug deaths among people in the U.S. under age 35 are plummeting. The shift is saving thousands of young lives every year. Rachel Wisniewski/NPR hide caption
Fentanyl deaths among the young are dropping. Can the trend continue?
A vaccine pharmacist prepares samples as part of an HIV vaccine trial on March 16, 2022 in Masaka, Uganda. The vaccine in that trial did not prove effective. A promising vaccine development program funded by the National Institutes of Health was just informed by the Trump administration that its support will end next year. Luke Dray/Getty Images hide caption
Around 2% of the population struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD. Andrii Yalanskyi/Getty Images hide caption
The researcher who wants to expand treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder
Justin Carlyle, age 23, photographed on the street in Kensington, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, has lived with addiction to fentanyl and other drugs for a decade. After a decade when overdoses devastated young Americans, drug deaths among people in the U.S. under age 35 are plummeting. The shift is saving thousands of young lives every year. Rachel Wisniewski for NPR/Rachel Wisniewski for NPR hide caption
Drug deaths plummet among young Americans as fentanyl carnage eases
Secretary RFK Jr. says replacing the CDC's vaccine advisors will help restore 'public trust' in vaccination. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images North America hide caption
RFK Jr. boots all members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee
Hundreds of NIH scientists protested cuts to the research agency in a declaration addressed to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research
Should you track your blood sugar with a continuous glucose monitor?
The Dog Aging Project includes dogs from all 50 states and aims to uncover health and life span trends in both canines and people. Getty Images/VYCHEGZHANINA hide caption
How a dog aging project can help pets and humans live healthier lives
President John F. Kennedy on August 4, 1961 on his way to a weekend on Cape Cod. As president, Kennedy valued exercise, physical fitness and vaccines. Bob Schutz/AP hide caption
RFK Jr. fact check: Were Americans actually healthier decades ago?
Ten-year-old Keashaanth, with a notebook and chessboard in front of him, follows along as his coach Selvabharathy leads a class at the Madras School of Chess in Chenna Viraj Nayar for NPR hide caption
A city in India is training Gen Z to take over the chess world
Recalled organic and cage-free brown eggs distributed by August Egg Company have the plant code number P-6562 or CA5330 printed on their carton or packaging. U.S. Food and Drug Administration hide caption
Adriana Smith is a patient at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta. Emergency complications early in her pregnancy led to brain death, but she remains on life support as the pregnancy continues, according to her family. Her case has become a symbol of the medical and ethical issues stemming from a Georgia law that bans most abortions and confers fetal "personhood" rights.
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Controversy grows over case of brain-dead pregnant woman kept on life support
In this 2007 photograph, President George W. Bush holds Baron Mosima Loyiso Tantoh, 4, whose mother Kunene Tantoh, left, is HIV positive and who worked with a program for mothers with HIV in Cape Town that was supported by U.S. funds. At that time, Bush was asking Congress to approve $30 billion over the next five years for PEPFAR, the program that he'd established in 2003 to combat the spread of AIDS. Carol T. Powers/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
A protestor marks International Overdose Awareness Day in Manhattan last August. Overdose deaths were down in recent months, and Democrats are questioning the wisdom of changing policies that are show progress. Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images hide caption
How cuts to the nation's main mental health agency could impact Americans
Jonathan Alperstein, one of the researchers, excavates a portion of land on an ancient agricultural site in Michigan. Jesse Casana hide caption
Extensive pre-colonial agriculture in eastern North America
Ugandans in Kabale line up for treatment for river blindness, a "neglected tropical disease" caused by a parasitic roundworm and transmitted by the bite of the black fly. The drug ivermectin, donated by a pharmaceutical company, kills the roundworm larvae. But now there's a freeze on the U.S. aid program that distributes the drug. Andy Crump/Science Source hide caption
Medicare has started price negotiations for 15 medicines, including the diabetes drug Ozempic. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption