Getting vaccinated against shingles can reduce the risk of developing dementia, a large new study finds. The results provide some of the strongest evidence yet that some viral infections can have effects on brain function years later and that preventing them can help stave off cognitive decline. The study, published on Wednesday in the journal…
Nolen: The first TB patient that I sat down with in Nairobi was a man who had extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB — essentially there’s a just a very slim chance that the only drugs we know about will actually cure him. We’re out of options. And he’d come in that day, like he had…
The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, and to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat malaria, one of the biggest killers globally. The administration has…
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” The projects terminated include H.I.V. treatment programs that had served millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst-affected African countries…
Day 2 of confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the country’s next health secretary kicked off with heated discussions about the safety of vaccinations, chronic illnesses and Covid-19. Here is a running list of key health claims, fact-checked by our reporters. Read Wednesday’s fact-check, and take a deeper look at Mr. Kennedy’s…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose antipathy toward vaccines and messages about healthy living helped him build a large national following, faced bruising questions from Democratic senators in his first confirmation hearing on Wednesday. He displayed limited knowledge of critical programs at times and struggled to convince skeptical lawmakers that he was not “anti-vaccine.” “I am…
Treating H.I.V. across dozens of nations. Stopping the forced labor of Chinese workers. Training Mexican and Colombian police in anti-narcotics enforcement. Those are just a tiny sample of aid programs around the world operating with grant money from the U.S. government that could be permanently shut down under an executive order President Trump signed last…
President Trump on Monday moved toward pushing openly transgender people out of the military, directed the Pentagon to end diversity programs and ordered the reinstatement of many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine as he sought to reshape America’s armed forces. The directives, contained in a batch of executive orders, advanced what Mr….