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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a defiant defense on Wednesday of his drastic overhaul of federal health agencies as House Democrats accused him of violating the law by shuttering whole divisions and cutting funding appropriated by Congress for medical research. “We are not withholding money for lifesaving research,” Mr. Kennedy insisted. After a fiery back and forth, Representative …

A Georgia woman is suing a fertility clinic after she gave birth to a baby conceived through in vitro fertilization and subsequently lost custody of the child to his biological parents, according to a lawsuit. The woman, Krystena Murray, 38, is suing Coastal Fertility Specialists, an I.V.F. clinic based in South Carolina, for the devastating mix-up, the lawsuit said. The …

Federal research funding to tackle areas like cancer, diabetes and heart disease is lagging by about $1 billion behind the levels of recent years, reflecting the chaotic start of the Trump administration and the dictates that froze an array of grants, meetings and communications. The slowdown in awards from the National Institutes of Health has been occurring while a legal …