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Newly created bureau is meant to make health security a global priority while building the capacity of U.S. diplomats and local health systems to curb future outbreaks

More than 5.6 million women in the U.S. and Puerto Rico live in counties with little or no access to maternity care

Marrazzo will start her new job in the fall

Kratom does not have U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, but is sold online and at convenience stores

The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will lead the U.S. response to long COVID, which includes trials that have already been launched

Henrietta Lacks' cells were taken without her knowledge while she was a cancer patient more than 70 years ago and were the first to be successfully cloned

Changes are happening now because a prohibition on removing Medicaid coverage during the pandemic has now been lifted

Program will fall under the purview of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, formed as part of the Cancer Moonshot initiative

New rules would require insurers to assess if customers have the same medical and mental health benefits and fix any disparities if they do not

The grants will help test for lead in drinking water, identify sources of contamination, and help fix the problem, agency says