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Who Is Casey Means, Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General?

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President Trump said on Wednesday that he would nominate Casey Means, a Stanford-educated doctor turned critic of corporate influence on medicine and health, as surgeon...
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Trump Has Called for More Babies but Dismissed Fertility Experts

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Every year, tens of thousands of young women opt to freeze their eggs, an expensive and sometimes painful procedure. As more Americans postpone childbearing, the...
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As Trump Targets Researchers, Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists

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As the Trump administration slashes support to research institutions and threatens to freeze federal funding to universities like Harvard and Columbia, European leaders are offering...
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UnitedHealth’s Move to End Cyberattack Loan Lifeline Upsets Medical Providers

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Two independent medical practices in Minnesota once hoped to expand operations but have spent the past year struggling to recover from the cyberattack on a...
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Trump’s V.A. Squeezes Mental Health Care in Crowed Offices, Raising Privacy Concerns

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In a Boston V.A. hospital, six social workers are conducting phone and telehealth visits with veterans from a single, crowded room, clinicians say. In Kansas...
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Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health

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The Trump administration has scrapped more than $800 million worth of research into the health of L.G.B.T.Q. people, abandoning studies of cancers and viruses that...
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Trump Budget Cuts Funding for Chronic Disease Prevention

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease “epidemic” would be a cornerstone of his Make America Healthy...