Health

• Critic of drug industry and COVID-19 measures to lead FDA vaccine program

  7-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 24

  Dr. Vinay Prasad, a prominent critic of the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration, has been named to oversee the health...

• How Utah dentists are preparing patients for the first statewide fluoride ban

  7-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 33

  With Utah's first-in-the-nation ban on fluoride in public drinking water set to take effect Wednesday, dentists who treat children and low-income...

• NHL fans sound player-safety alarm after Toronto goalie leaves arena on stretcher

  7-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 42

  Many NHL fans are not happy about the league's player-safety protocols following a scary scene during Monday's second-round playoff game between...

• Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication

  6-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 34

  The Trump administration on Monday asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three GOP-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to abortion...

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• Trump shuts off federal funding for gain-of-function virus research in China, Iran

  6-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 25

  President Trump ended federal funding for gain-of-function virus research in China, Iran and other countries that have "insufficient research...

• New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says

  6-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 37

  A new salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry has sickened at least seven people in six states, health officials said Monday.

• Trump FDA pressed to tighten abortion-pill safety after study points to dangers

  6-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 26

  Pressure is building on the Food and Drug Administration to reinstate safeguards on the abortion pill after a largest-of-its-kind study found the...

• Study finds young adult depression surge outlasted COVID lockdowns

  6-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 28

  Worsening finances and social isolation during COVID-19 lockdowns contributed to a post-pandemic surge in clinical depression symptoms among young...

• Coalition of 19 states, D.C. asks federal judge to reverse deep cuts to Health and Human Services

  6-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 39

  Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to the U.S. Health and Human Services agency, saying the Trump...

• Supreme Court won't hear dispute over Mississippi ban on advertising medical marijuana

  6-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 31

  The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not hear a dispute out of Mississippi over the ability to advertise the sale of medical marijuana.

• NBC Sports' Mike Tirico says he's feeling fine after nut allergy knocked him off the Derby broadcast

  6-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 35

  NBC Sports host Mike Tirico said Monday he is feeling fine after having to leave the Kentucky Derby broadcast early over the weekend because of a...

• Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen U.S. government health-tracking programs

  4-5-2025 Health Washington Times - Health 49

  U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's motto is "Make America Healthy Again," but government cuts could make it harder to know if that's happening.