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The FDA decision Tuesday extends boosters to everyone who has had their first COVID vaccines. Children younger than five have yet to be approved for a COVID vaccine, but that may come this summer. 

Abbott Nutrition recalled Similac and other brands of powdered formula after five hospitalizations and two deaths, raising questions about federal oversight. And the lack of factory production has made a U.S. formula shortage worse. 

Congenital syphilis rates keep climbing, according to newly released federal data. But the primary funding source for most public health departments has been largely stagnant, its purchasing power dragged even lower by inflation.

The number of babies born with syphilis in the U.S. has become a dire situation, data from the CDC shows. About 7% of babies diagnosed with syphilis in recent years have died and thousands of others have faced other problems. Many public health departments are now turning their attention back to syphilis and other diseases as the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.

For a decade, the number of babies born with syphilis in the U.S. has surged, undeterred. Data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows just how dire the outbreak has become. In 2012, 332 babies were born infected with the disease. In 2021, that number had climbed nearly sevenfold, to at […]

Congenital syphilis rates keep climbing, according to newly released federal data. But the primary funding source for most public health departments has been largely stagnant, its purchasing power dragged even lower by inflation.

Congenital syphilis rates keep climbing, according to newly released federal data. But the primary funding source for most public health departments has been largely stagnant.

Congenital syphilis rates keep climbing, but the main source of funding for most public health departments has been largely stagnant.