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Fenit Nirappil

Staff Writer & Reporter at The Washington Post

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  • Health & Medicine
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Is RFK Jr. right about safety testing for vaccines? Answers to your questions.

Post health reporters will answer your questions on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plans for public health during a live chat at 10 a.m. ET on Friday.
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The prohibition abruptly expanded to include adults hours before the House passed the bill, escalating the crackdown on transgender care once focused on children.
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Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids

While RFK Jr. said the coronavirus vaccine would be removed from the CDC schedule for healthy children, it’s still recommended in consultation with doctors.
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The biggest shift yet in U.S. vaccine policy

An influential advisory panel has recommended dropping the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. This doctor is already seeing the consequences.
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RFK Jr. claimed that keto diets cured schizophrenia. Here’s what sc...

RFK Jr. claimed that keto diets cured schizophrenia. Here’s what science says.
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Why older whale dads are now winning the mating game

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Inactivity in a warming world could spur hundreds of thousands of d...

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Four truths about covid that have become clouded over time

In the early days, the virus posed a graver threat to people and the health care system, Trump embraced lockdowns he now blasts, and the benefits of vaccines were oversold.
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The secrets of the sex lives of octopuses, revealed

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1 in 3 Americans use chatbots for health advice. These 6 patients e...

They say cost, speed and other considerations drove them to AI. They are also learning what to believe and what to take with caution.