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6 articles covering "public health"
A study of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults finds the shingles vaccine dramatically reduces heart attacks, strokes, and deaths in people with existing cardiovascular disease.
The 2026 AMR Benchmark reveals a 35 percent contraction in pharmaceutical antibiotic pipelines since 2021, while the WHO publishes new target product profiles for urgently needed drugs against carbapenem-resistant bacteria, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, and drug-resistant meningitis.
The FDA is simultaneously overhauling its GRAS ingredient notification system, phasing out petroleum-based food dyes by year-end, and confronting PFAS contamination in produce, marking the broadest transformation of US food chemical regulation since the 1958 Food Additives Amendment.
A federal court has halted sweeping changes to the national childhood immunization schedule and frozen Kennedy's ACIP appointments, finding the reconstituted panel likely violated federal law.
ARMR Sciences begins Phase 1 trials of a vaccine that trains the immune system to intercept fentanyl before it reaches the brain, a preventive approach with no precedent in addiction medicine.
A second-generation Pro-Active Genetics system spreads via bacterial conjugation to disable resistance genes on plasmids, working even inside biofilms.