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FILE - This Dec. 8, 2009 file photo shows trucks hauling material to the Waste Management landfill site just outside Kettleman City, Calif. The tiny farm town is home to the largest toxic waste dump in the West. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is fining the West's largest hazardous waste dump more than $300,000 for alleged improper disposal of cancer-causing chemicals. Residents near the Kettleman Hills dump in Central California previously expressed concerns that it was linked to a high rate of birth defects among children in the area, but state health officials say they have not identified a common cause of the problems. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

California board voted to nix a controversial hazardous waste proposal

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control had planned to weaken rules for hazard waste disposal. An oversight board voted to kill that proposal.

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The coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, shown in purple, infects a cell, colored in green.

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FILE - Former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks testifies during a hearing, May 11, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP, File)

Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.

Los Angeles, CA - March 25: Dr. Neville Anderson, left, helps to hold Iris Behnam, 4, while nurse Breanna Kirby, right, gives her DTap Polio and MMR Chickenpox (Varicilla) vaccinations while her mom, Haley Behnam, holds and comforts her at Larchmont Pediatrics in Los Angeles Tuesday, March 25, 2025. At the popular Larchmont Pediatrics, Dr. Neville Anderson requires all infants to begin their routine vaccinations by the three month visit. Parents who refuse receive a letter in the mail stating that they have 30 days to find a new doctor. "If a parent is truly anti-vax and does not want to vaccinate their child, our values and our goals and our beliefs are so antithetical to each other that we're not a good team," said Anderson. "I'm not the right doctor for them, and they're not the right patient for me." Larchmont only dismisses 1-4 patients each year, she said, since most anti-vaccine families know their reputation and tend to go elsewhere. For some patients, the dismissal policy is a real draw. As yet another measles outbreak continues to spread in Texas and New Mexico, with the first two measles deaths in the U.S. in a decade, physicians are again facing a moral quandary: Should they refuse to see families who don't want to vaccinate their children, or keep them in their practices in the hopes of changing their minds? (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) 3pm Dr. Anderson sees a 4 year old patient who is getting vaccines 4:15pm A baby is getting a vaccine, but Dr. Anderson will not be there. The parent said it's fine to shoot her face and get artful phots of the vaccination, baby -- but she doesn't want her baby's face photographed. 8:52 4:30pm Dr. Anderson will be seeing another 4 year old patient who is getting vaccines

A pediatrician’s dilemma: Should a practice kick out unvaccinated kids?

Marianne de Reynier Nevsky, the cultural mediation manager in Neuchatel, left, and town council member Julie Courcier Delafontaine chat about a new "museum prescription" program outside the Ethnographic Museum of Neuchatel in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaton)

Stressed? Sick? Swiss town lets doctors prescribe museum visits as art therapy for patients

In this image from video provided by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Dr. Martin Makary speaks during a select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic roundtable in Washington on Feb. 28, 2023. (Committee on Oversight and Government Reform via AP)

Trump’s FDA pick made his name by bashing the medical establishment. Soon he may be leading it

3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19 in front of a 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. The spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells. On the virus model, the virus surface (blue) is covered with spike proteins (red) that enable the virus to enter and infect human cells. For more information, visit the NIH 3D Print Exchange at 3dprint.nih.gov. Credit: NIH. . (Photo by: IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Long COVID is solvable, but we need more clinical trials

President Donald Trump congratulates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after he was sworn in as Health and Human Services Secretary in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed and sworn in as the nation’s health secretary

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing for his pending confirmation on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Senators challenge Robert Kennedy Jr. on vaccines in confirmation hearing as health secretary

FILE - A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

The CIA believes COVID likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding

HUNTINGTON PARK-CA-AUGUST 28, 2024: Brandon Guerrero, 34, of Compton, receives both a flu and COVID-19 vaccine at CVS in Huntington Park on August 28, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Trump’s first term brought world-changing vaccine. His second could bring retreat

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