Tag: Health
Departing CDC officials say Monarez’s firing was the final straw and political meddling is a problem
NEW YORK – When the White House fired Susan Monarez as director of the premier U.S. public health agency, it was clear to two...
Trump fires CDC head after one month on the job. Her lawyers say she ‘refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives’
The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job, and several top agency...
Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out
Susan Monarez is no longer the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a post by the official Department...
CDC director Susan Monarez is out after less than a month on the job, federal officials say
NEW YORK – The director of the nation's top public health agency is out after less than one month in the job, U.S. officials...
Sis, Sprinting Could Literally Save Your Life—Here’s Why
If you enjoy sprinting, there’s great news: even short bursts of high-intensity sprinting can deliver powerful benefits for your body and brain, especially for...
Lawyers for parents who claim ChatGPT encouraged their son to kill himself say they will prove OpenAI rushed its chatbot to market to pocket billions
The family of 16-year-old Adam Raine is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for wrongful death, alleging the company’s popular AI chatbot ChatGPT...
Cropped 27 August 2025: ‘Frustrating’ Amazon summit; Workplace heat hazards; Record European wildfires – Carbon Brief
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Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year – Carbon Brief
Warming driven by deforestation caused an extra 28,000...
America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying RFK Jr.
For decades, the American public, the federal government, and the medical community have been nearly unanimous: Vaccines are important because they save lives. Today,...
The one, big unanswered question about Ozempic
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