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January 25, 2025 10:35 AM

The FDA pulls key DEI initiative for cancer studies from its website

A Food and Drug Administration project to promote diversity in clinical studies of cancer treatments was removed from the agency's website, as the Trump administration halts DEI initiatives.

by Sydney Lupkin

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January 24, 2025 11:43 AM

University of Minnesota and Essentia announce new health care alliance

The University of Minnesota and Essentia Health are proposing a new nonprofit for academic medicine in Minnesota. The university currently operates under a collaborative agreement with Fairview Health Services. That agreement ends next year.

by Erica Zurek

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January 24, 2025 4:00 AM

Minnesota sees decline in flu and COVID-19 hospitalizations, RSV cases climb

Statewide data released Thursday by the Minnesota Department of Health indicates that hospitalizations for influenza and COVID-19 have slightly declined for the first time in over a month.

by Erica Zurek

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January 23, 2025 3:42 PM

Trump pardons anti-abortion activists who blockaded clinic entrances

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would pardon anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances.

by The Associated Press

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January 22, 2025 8:46 PM

RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck

RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.

by Sydney Lupkin

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January 22, 2025 2:25 PM

Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications

In a memo obtained by NPR, acting Health Secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from "a presidential appointee."

by Gabrielle Emanuel, Selena Simmons-Duffin and Rob Stein

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January 22, 2025 9:00 AM

The link between alcohol consumption and cancer risk

MPR News guest host Catharine Richert talks about the U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory calling for expanding the warning label on alcohol to link it to an increased risk for some cancers.

by Catharine Richert and Cari Dwyer

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January 21, 2025 3:22 PM

Trump’s federal health website scrubs ‘abortion’ search results

The most “relevant” results that come up in a search of “abortion” on HHS.gov, the website for the federal Department of Health and Human Services, are several years old, from the first Trump administration.

by Selena Simmons-Duffin