Healthy Returns: What to know about the U.S. measles outbreak

Healthy Returns: What to know about the U.S. measles outbreak

MMR vaccine administer prep is pictured during a drive at the City of Lubbock Health Department in Lubbock, Texas, U.S. Feb. 27, 2025. Annie Rice | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe …

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Trump’s drive to reshape government threatens bird flu response

Trump’s drive to reshape government threatens bird flu response

A rooster roams on a farm on January 23, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images As avian flu drives egg prices to record levels and increasingly poses a risk to humans, moves by the White House to cut spending and restrict communications have hobbled public health officials’ response, with the …

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U.S. investors, Big Pharma race to find new medicines in China

U.S. investors, Big Pharma race to find new medicines in China

A little-known biotech company stunned the biopharmaceutical industry last spring when it declared an “unprecedented” achievement: its experimental cancer drug looked more effective than Merck‘s Keytruda in a clinical trial. The company, Summit Therapeutics, licensed the drug from Chinese company Akeso Inc.  In October, a group of life science investors …

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Healthy Returns: What to know about Trump’s NIH funding cuts

Healthy Returns: What to know about Trump’s NIH funding cuts

Biotech researchers. Janiecbros | E+ | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. The Trump administration is trying to implement major funding cuts to the National Institutes …

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