The Trump administration is expected to soon say whether it intends to stand by strict drinking water standards for forever chemicals set last year. The Environmental Protection Agency has said PFAS increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and babies being born with low birth weight. But reducing PFAS could be costly for thousands of water utilities. The Biden administration said those costs were worth it, but it's unclear if current EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will agree. He's expressed concern about places with marginal amounts of PFAS that could incur high costs to reduce it. There are billions of dollars from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and lawsuits to help communities afford new treatments systems.
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Hundreds of university researchers in the U.S. have had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to end support of research on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the study of misinformation. The loss of funding has roiled academic laboratories that rely on NSF grants to conduct basic research. While some expected the cuts after making it onto on Sen. Ted Cruz's target list of “woke DEI” projects last year, others said their work was only tangentially related to misinformation or encouraging more diversity in the study of science and engineering.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate…
In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump's administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research grants for Harvard Uni…
Authorities have released a lengthy investigation report detailing some of the last emails and internet searches done by Gene Hackman's wife in the days before her death. The records show she was searching the internet for information on flu-like symptoms and breathing techniques. Authorities have said Betsy Arakawa died in February of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome — a rare, rodent-borne disease. Symptoms can range from flu-like illness to severe respiratory distress. Gene Hackman is believed to have died about a week later of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Authorities also are expected to release more police body camera footage from the investigation as the result of a recent court order.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is threading the needle between his agency’s role as a neutral arbiter of science and the rhetoric of anti-vaccine activists. That’s according to doctors, public health experts and propaganda researchers who know Kennedy’s history well. When Kennedy endorsed the measles vaccine this month after an outbreak in Texas claimed the life of a second child, his comments made waves because he has spent 20 years making false claims that vaccines are unsafe. Many of Kennedy’s anti-vaccine allies stood by him anyway.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism, Heal…
Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have begun receiving notices of dismissal in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices came Tuesday just days after President Donald Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies throughout the government. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announced a plan last week to remake HHS, which, through its agencies, is responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, monitoring the safety of food and medicine, and administering health insurance programs for nearly half of the country.
American adults who haven’t yet gotten vaccinated against COVID-19 may soon get another choice, as advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday backed a more traditional type of shot.