Lev Facher

23 hours ago | statnews.com | Lev Facher |Daniel Payne

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Capitol Hill delivered different versions of a similar message to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Wednesday budget hearing: We love the Make America Healthy Again agenda …. but. Throughout the hearing, GOP lawmakers lauded President Trump’s agenda and Kennedy’s actions in his first months as health secretary.

23 hours ago | dental.einnews.com | Lev Facher |Daniel Payne

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1 day ago | statnews.com | Lev Facher

Drug deaths plummeted in 2024, according to new federal data. An estimated 80,391 people died of a drug overdose in the U.S. last year, marking the lowest total since 2019. The sum represents a roughly 27% decrease from 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new data reflect a trend that began in late 2023, when overdose deaths finally began to drop after years of steady increase.

1 week ago | statnews.com | Lev Facher

Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, excoriated the Trump administration’s efforts to upend federal scientific agencies on Wednesday, saying the logic behind the moves “escapes any possible explanation.”Speaking on a panel about trust in science and scientific institutions, Collins also expressed a degree of regret for public health officials’ failure to explain their own uncertainty and the fast-changing landscape during the Covid-19 pandemic.

1 week ago | statnews.com | Lev Facher

In recent months, federal prosecutors indicted a Georgia man for “possessing enough fentanyl to kill up to 500,000 individuals.” A sheriff in South Carolina announced the seizure of fentanyl that “had the potential to kill more than 800,000 people.” Perhaps most impressively, California Highway Patrol officers estimated they seized enough of the opioid to kill “a quarter of the population” of the entire state — some 10 million people.