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Leaders of Mental Health Giant Promised Big Bonuses to Deal With Federal Investigations

Leaders of Mental Health Giant Promised Big Bonuses to Deal With Federal Investigations

Apr 24, 2025

Last year was tough for Acadia Healthcare, one of the country’s largest providers of mental health services.A slew of federal agencies opened investigations into whether Acadia illegally held patients...

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Tariffs on China Aren’t Likely to Rescue Battered U.S. P.P.E. Industry

Tariffs on China Aren’t Likely to Rescue Battered U.S. P.P.E. Industry

Apr 23, 2025

Few domestic industries have been as devastated by the flood of cheap Chinese imports as manufacturers of face masks, exam gloves and other disposable medical gear that protects health care workers fr...

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RFK Jr. Announces Ban on Food Dyes and Says ‘Sugar Is Poison’

RFK Jr. Announces Ban on Food Dyes and Says ‘Sugar Is Poison’

Apr 23, 2025

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. escalated his war against the food industry on Tuesday, declaring that “sugar is poison.”Mr. Kennedy’s comment came during a highly publicized news conference wh...

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Birthrates Languish in Record Lows, C.D.C. Reports

Birthrates Languish in Record Lows, C.D.C. Reports

Apr 23, 2025

Births in the United States increased by just 1 percent in 2024, still near the record low rates that have alarmed demographers and become a central part of the Trump administration’s cultural agenda,...

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National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards

Apr 22, 2025

Casey Fiesler, an information science professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, learned late on Friday evening that one of the three grants she had been awarded by the National Science Foundati...

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Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000

Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000

Apr 22, 2025

The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting...

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