A National Institutes of Health employee who was put on paid leave after organizing a public letter that criticized the Trump administration said on Friday that she had been reinstated — a move that followed the reinstatement of 14 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees who had signed a critical letter of their own. The employee,…
The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it would permit some patients with deadly pancreatic cancer to receive early access to a promising, highly coveted drug. The treatment, daraxonrasib, taken as three pills a day, is not yet approved for use. But many patients have been desperate to try it. The drug recently…
As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sets out to rein in the use of psychiatric medications, a group of prominent psychiatrists are developing guidance for helping patients to stop taking them, noting that providers sometimes “park” patients on medications that are no longer necessary or effective. The experts, whose first recommendations appeared in JAMA…
The federal government has not reported any complete data on nationwide enrollment since that grace period ended. In a normal year, the next such report would be published in July. But reports from states that run their own marketplaces are already showing larger declines. Even among those states, the impact of the lost funding has…
President Trump has withdrawn the nomination of Dr. Casey Means, his pick for surgeon general, whose confirmation was stalled on Capitol Hill amid opposition, including from some Republicans, in part over her views on vaccines. In a post on Truth Social on Thursday, Mr. Trump announced that he is nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a…
Can testosterone really slow ageing? Dr Xand explains what the hormone actually does, who may benefit from treatment, and why it’s not a fix for healthy people. He also outlines the risks of taking extra testosterone — and why it’s carefully prescribed, especially for women. To watch this with subtitles go to BBC iPlayer and…
“Our brains are so pharmaceutically inclined,” he said. “This fits into the model of pills.” At the same time, tDCS could also challenge the current, pill-centric paradigm, by pushing psychiatrists to go beyond old notions of serotonin deficiencies and chemical imbalances, and to think more broadly about getting the brain unstuck. The two treatments together,…
Dr. David Morens, a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci at the National Institutes of Health, has been indicted on charges of skirting federal record-keeping laws and concealing emails related to the origins of the coronavirus outbreak in China. The indictment, unsealed on Monday by the district court in Maryland, represents a victory…
A simple strip of treated paper that can swiftly signal whether a street drug contains deadly fentanyl or other contaminants is a common overdose prevention tool, distributed widely on college campuses and at music festivals and community clinics. The federal government has championed test strips since 2021 and has paid to supply them to states,…
The Supreme Court appeared divided on Monday during arguments in a dispute that could determine the fate of thousands of lawsuits that claim a widely used weedkiller causes cancer. The case is the latest turn in a yearslong legal battle over safety concerns with the weedkiller Roundup. Developed by Monsanto in the 1970s, the herbicide…
