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President-elect Donald Trump's choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S.

The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.

Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.

Natural, tallow-based cosmetics can be made at home or bought from artisans. Doctors aren't thrilled, but they're all the rage on TikTok.

People are turning to psilocybin, ketamine and other treatments for palliative care.

Unable to find effective treatments at home, veterans with brain-injury symptoms are going abroad for plant-based psychedelics like ibogaine that are illegal in the U.S.

Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.

"Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed -- they're dangerous," said the former Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.

A senior partner has also pleaded to obstruction of justice after destroying company documents.

A lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked the F.D.A. to withdraw approval of the current shot because it hasn't been tested against a placebo. Scientists say such a test would be unethical.