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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told lawmakers in responses to questions released on Friday that he would divest his interest in litigation against a major HPV vaccine maker and would sign over the financial stake to an adult son. He also disclosed he had reached at least one settlement agreement with a company or individual that had accused him of “misconduct …

Hugh Pym and Nick Triggle BBC News BBC News Keira Bell says she deeply regrets the treatments that she underwent Health Secretary Wes Streeting is being threatened with legal action if he does not ban the private sale of cross-sex hormones such as testosterone to under 18s. Lawyers acting for three people – including campaigner Keira Bell – have written …

Smitha Mundasad Health reporter, BBC News BBC Asiawu Imam says the therapy will make a huge difference A gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, with a price tag of £1.65m, is to be offered to patients on the NHS in England. About 50 people a year with the inherited blood disorder are likely to receive it, experts say. Prof Bola …

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new medication Thursday to treat pain from an injury or surgery. It is expensive, with a list price of $15.50 per pill. But unlike opioid pain medicines, it cannot become addictive. That is because the drug, suzetrigine, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and to be sold as Journavx, works only on nerves outside the …

During intense questioning Thursday by members of the Senate health committee about his plan to keep a financial stake in major vaccine litigation, Robert F. Kennedy said that he would give away his rights to fees that might flow from it. It appears to be a reversal from the details of the government ethics agreement that he filed for his …

Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of nursing into an area of serious clinical practice, education and research, died on Jan. 22 at her home in Wildwood, Fla. She was 104. Her daughter, Valerie Monrad, confirmed the death. Today there are more than 350,000 nurse practitioners in …

A patient is showing his hand with a sore caused by an infection of the monkeypox virus, in the isolation area for monkeypox patients at the Arzobispo Loayza hospital, in Lima, Peru on August 16, 2022. — AFP PESHAWAR: Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Ihtesham Ali has confirmed detection of the second mpox case of 2025 at …

A man looks on as family members of people who died during the COVID-19 pandemic hold banners as they wait outside the UK COVID-19 inquiry, in London, Britain, on December 7, 2023. — Reuters  A new study suggests that a simple blood test could determine which patients are at risk of contracting long COVID.  A form of white blood cells, …

Getty Images Norovirus cases in England are currently more than double the expected number for this time of year, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. Separate data from NHS England showed 898 hospital beds were filled on average every day last week by patients suffering from norovirus-like symptoms – a 15% increase from last week. Higher case numbers …

Uganda’s ministry of health has confirmed a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital, Kampala, with one reported death. The victim was a 32-year-old male nurse whose symptoms included “high fever, chest pain, and difficulty in breathing” and “bleeding from multiple body sites”. He died of multi-organ failure on Wednesday at Mulango National Hospital, located in the city’s …