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CDC takes down more than a dozen webpages on sexual and gender identity, health equity

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A sign for the CDC sits outside of their facility at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 30, 2025. Megan Varner | Reuters More than a dozen pages on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website related to sexual and gender identity, health equity, and other…

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Healthy Returns: New FDA rules affect copycat GLP-1s, and Apple adds health tools to its latest Watch

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FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seen in Silver Spring, Maryland November 4, 2009.  Jason Reed | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. The Food…

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Medicaid cuts in Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ will leave millions uninsured, threaten rural hospitals

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An aerial view of Valley Health Hampshire Memorial Hospital on June 17, 2025 in Romney, W.V. Ricky Carioti | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s “big beautiful bill” would make sweeping changes to U.S. health care, leaving millions of vulnerable Americans without health insurance and threatening the hospitals and centers that provide…

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Healthy Returns: RFK Jr.’s Covid vaccine recommendation change could threaten health, access

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A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. A wave of outrage is sweeping the scientific and medical world after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to stop recommending routine Covid-19…

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Trump wants to slash U.S. drug prices with ‘most favored nation’ policy – here’s what to know 

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President Donald Trump, joined by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, speaks during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 12, 2025, in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday moved forward with a plan to lower U.S….

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Trump drops Biden’s proposal for Medicare to cover obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound

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A combination image shows an injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, and boxes of Wegovy, made by Novo Nordisk.  Reuters President Donald Trump on Friday dropped a Biden administration proposal to have Medicare cover obesity drugs, including popular but costly GLP-1 treatments such as Novo Nordisk‘s Wegovy and Eli Lilly‘s Zepbound. But the Centers…

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Healthy Returns: What to know about the U.S. measles outbreak

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MMR vaccine administer prep is pictured during a drive at the City of Lubbock Health Department in Lubbock, Texas, U.S. Feb. 27, 2025. Annie Rice | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions….

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Healthy Returns: Biotech and pharma M&A is off to a good start in 2025 — but will it last?

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The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) on Dec. 5th, 2023. NYSE Group A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. I’m back in New York City after spending nearly a…

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Healthy Returns: Weight loss drug race heats up with pill data from Viking Therapeutics, AstraZeneca

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Aykut Karahan | Istock | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. Happy Friday! Buried in the election news this week was new data from drugmakers vying to enter the booming weight…

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Healthy Returns: Eli Lilly could soon become the first $1 trillion health-care stock

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A sign with the company logo outside the headquarters of Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 17, 2024. Scott Olson | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. Earlier this…

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