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Jerome Adams, MD, who served as the US Surgeon General during the first Trump administration voiced distress about Kennedy’s move.
Drugmaker Innoviva said the FDA has accepted its new drug application for zoliflodacin, an investigational oral antibiotic for uncomplicated gonorrhea.
Kennedy's rationale is based on a series of inaccuracies and part of a pattern of misrepresentation.
Also, Colorado reported 2 more cases, including another linked to airport exposure.
The approval is the second for an RSV monoclonal antibody preventive for infants.
Kennedy said a 'clean sweep' of all 17 current members of the CDC's vaccine advisory board is necessary to re-establish public confidence in vaccines.
68 major congenital malformations were observed in the vaccinated and 53 in the unexposed cohort.
Neurologic, pulmonary, and cardiovascular manifestations were most prevalent.
The outbreak has sickened 79 people in 7 states and is linked to brown cage free and brown certified organic eggs from a distributor in California.
Twenty five countries have reported outbreaks, including newly affected Sierra Leone where infections are surging.
The West Sacramento patient may have contracted the infection locally, especially given recent wastewater detections.
These are the first whooping cough deaths in the state since 2018.
The letter was signed by 92 NIH scientists and many more who remained anonymous across all 27 of the agency's divisions.
Estimates varied from 2008 through 2018, with RSV-associated antibiotic prescribing exceeding 10% in peak RSV years and flu-associated prescribing exceeding 20% in peak flu years.
In other developments, Canada reported its first measles death of the year, a premature infant born to an infected mother.
Scientists estimate a precurser to the 2022 strain first emerged in Nigeria in August 2014 and spread to 11 Nigerian states before human infections were detected in 2017.
Population density and tourism are among factors driving infections in Sierra Leone, which made up 53% of mpox illnesses in Africa last week.
A review and meta-analysis finds a 33% pooled prevalence of non-prescription antibiotic use in kids under 5 in low- and middle-income countries.
Pakistan reported a new wild poliovirus type 1 case, while five countries reported cases of vaccine-derived polio.
HHS received a list of 100 ways it could better prepare for and respond to public health emergencies such as pandemics.
