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Top vaccine official forced out of FDA

By Nora Gaul, John Bonifield and Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The head of the US Food and Drug Administration department responsible for assuring the safety and effectiveness of vaccines has resigned, according to a resignation letter obtained by CNN. Dr. Peter Marks, director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, was given

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Some measles patients in West Texas show signs of vitamin A toxicity, doctors say, raising concerns about misinformation

By Neha Mukherjee, CNN (CNN) — Doctors treating people hospitalized as part of a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico have also found themselves facing another problem: vitamin A toxicity. At Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, near the outbreak’s epicenter, several patients have been found to have abnormal liver function on routine lab tests,

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Local and state health departments said they were caught off guard by an abrupt end to federal grants that started during the Covid-19 pandemic — a move that introduced "uncertainty and chaos

Trump administration pulls back billions in Covid-era funding for state, local health departments

By Jacqueline Howard, Brenda Goodman, Neha Mukherjee and Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — State and local public health departments are bracing themselves as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulls back about $11.4 billion in grants that were allocated to state and community health departments during the Covid-19 pandemic response. “The COVID-19 pandemic

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‘Measles is only a plane flight away’: As outbreak surges, experts warn against global health funding cuts

By Neha Mukherjee, CNN (CNN) — After returning home from a trip abroad last week, an infant in Houston was hospitalized with measles. In Lamoille County, Vermont, this month, a child became sick with measles after returning from foreign travel. The same thing happened to an adult in Oakland County, Michigan, whose vaccination status was

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