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This Irish sea moss, Chondrus Crispus, is dried, raw and full of nutrients. Katerina Solovyeva/500px Plus/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Katerina Solovyeva/500px Plus/Getty Images What grows in the ocean, …

A federal vaccine advisory committee signaled a new approach to U.S. vaccine policy after a two-day meeting. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has …

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers will vote on their recommendations for the hepatitis B and COVID vaccines on the second day of the highly anticipated …

Will Stone summarizes the CDC advisory committee’s rollback of two vaccines for kids and the restrictions on the COVID-19 vaccine.

Have you ever been so consumed by a crush that you couldn’t stop thinking about them? Or when you weren’t around them, you felt sick to your stomach? There’s a …

Sandals outside a brothel on the Uganda-Kenya highway. Among the many losses after the U.S. aid cuts: free condoms and PrEP for sex workers. Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson for NPR hide …

ACIP member Retsef Levi points to a slide while speaking during a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on September 18, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. The federal …

Martin Kulldorff (right) speaks with Robert Malone during a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on September 18, 2025 in Chamblee, Ga. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images hide caption …

People take pictures at a vista point with the San Francisco skyline obscured by smoke from wildfires during a spate of smoke during 2020, one of the worst wildfire smoke …

NPR speaks with Debra Houry, the CDC’s former chief medical officer, about her decision to leave her post and her concerns over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine decisions. …