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5 days ago | 
cnn.com | Deidre McPhillips
Tissue with measles pneumonia is seen in a microscope image from 1972. CDC/Getty Images See all topics Email Link Copied! Measles cases continue to accumulate in the United States in what is already the second-worst year since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago. Now, a recent outbreak in one North Dakota county has led local health officials to quarantine nearly 200 unvaccinated students.
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1 week ago | 
cnn.com | Deidre McPhillips
Only about 4% of measles cases reported to the CDC this year have been in people who had received at least one shot of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Annie Rice/AP See all topics Email Link Copied! More than 1,000 measles cases have been reported in the United States in 2025, according to a CNN tally.
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1 week ago | 
cnn.com | Deidre McPhillips
Fluoride can help prevent tooth decay by strengthening the protective outer layer of enamel. Hannah Schoenbaum/AP See all topics Email Link Copied! Dentists in Utah can tell rather quickly whether their patients grew up in the Salt Lake City area or in a different part of the state.
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1 week ago | 
wrex.com | Deidre McPhillips
(CNN) — The public health practice of adding fluoride to drinking water is facing heavy scrutiny from the Trump administration, and toothpaste companies are being pulled into the fray now, too.
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1 week ago | 
cnn.com | Deidre McPhillips
Toothpaste containing fluoride has been widely available and commonly used in the US since the mid-1970s. Issarawat Tattong/Moment RF/Getty Images/File CNN — The public health practice of adding fluoride to drinking water is facing heavy scrutiny from the Trump administration, and toothpaste companies are being pulled into the fray now, too.
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2 weeks ago | 
wthitv.com | Deidre McPhillips
(CNN) - Alison Singer has a few people she'd like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to meet. Singer's brother and daughter are two of the millions living with autism in the United States, and part of a much larger community that has very publicly expressed feeling hurt and disrespected by the US Health and Human Services secretary's description of who they are and how they live. "He clearly doesn't understand either one of them," said Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation.
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2 weeks ago | 
wrex.com | Deidre McPhillips
(CNN) — Women in the United States are less likely to have babies than ever before, but key figures in the Trump administration seem keen on changing that – even as federal programs focused on reproductive health face significant upheaval. About 3.6 million babies were born in the US in 2024, according to a new report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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2 weeks ago | 
cnn.com | Deidre McPhillips
Tens of thousands of women have participated in the Women's Health Initiative research project, conducted by the National Institutes of Health. Jim Bryant/AP/File CNN — In an abrupt reversal, the US Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it no longer plans to cut funding for the Women’s Health Initiative, a groundbreaking research project focused on preventing disease in older women.
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2 weeks ago | 
krdo.com | Deidre McPhillips
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN(CNN) — Alison Singer has a few people she’d like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to meet. Singer’s brother and daughter are two of the millions living with autism in the United States, and part of a much larger community that has very publicly expressed feeling hurt and disrespected by the US Health and Human Services secretary’s description of who they are and how they live. “He clearly doesn’t understand either one of them,” said Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation.
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3 weeks ago | 
paducahsun.com | Deidre McPhillips
As a measles outbreak centered in West Texas continues to grow, a new poll finds that a growing share of adults in the United States have heard false claims about the disease and the vaccine to prevent it — and many aren’t completely confident in their conviction. Nearly two-thirds of adults have heard the false claim that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism, according to new poll data published Wednesday by KFF.
