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Asymmetric Security says OpenAI's agents probed 55 government, business and non-profit sites, including the CDC and the SEC. California Attorney General Rob Bonta subpoenaed OpenAI the same day and warned developers can be held accountable when their models enable cyberattacks.
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CDC's National Center for Health Statistics proposes shrinking its health interview survey from 482 questions to 150, dropping cognition and mobility items. Advocates say the shorter form would deepen an undercount of Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a survey run since 1957.
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Sweetgreen cut its full-year same-store sales forecast to a 7-8% drop from 2-4% after a cyclospora outbreak tied to lettuce its cofounder says it never buys. Its shares are still up nearly 28% this year on a recovery its own forecast has yet to show.
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Action on Smoking and Health surveys found 19% of 940 UK adults, and 14% of a New Zealand sample, used cigarettes to try to quit vaping. Both figures count quit attempts and leave open how many people stayed on cigarettes.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a MAHA Institute event that researchers should not need a gatekeeper's permission to study patient health records. Allies offered Nebraska's exchange as the model, though state consent laws limit such access and the Nebraska deal appears never to have been announced.
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University of Kentucky and USDA researchers tracked 21 major hydrocarbon peaks and found mating reshapes screwworm flies' chemical coat, most in females. Fly behavior was not tested, so its value for monitoring and control is still a hypothesis.
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Twenty-five years on, the program has documented more than 139,000 health conditions in more than 150,000 enrolled survivors and responders, about 38 percent of the 400,000 people the CDC estimates were exposed after the attacks.
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The United States is in its worst measles year since 1991. The figure on the federal counter is one death, marked subject to change, while Pennsylvania officials describe four deaths among unvaccinated people.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tied CDC measles death counts to NCHS coding, so the dashboard lists one death where Pennsylvania reports four. Former NCHS officials say coding delays and suppression of counts below 10 will leave the federal figure behind small outbreaks.
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US measles cases reached 3,471 by Sept. 17, about 52% more than in all of 2025, CDC figures show. New AAP guidance prepares clinicians for babies infected before birth, whose risk estimates rest on limited research.
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Arkansas researchers report that plasma etching held E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa down for 24 hours on films made from the protein fraction, while whole-bran films barely etched at all.
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At Boulder Care, patients reporting kratom use went from 3% of new admissions last September to 14% in August. Two providers now describe the withdrawal in opioid terms, with no trial evidence to dose against.
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A plastic surgeon writing for STAT counts 1.6 million minimally invasive cosmetic procedures on American men in 2024 and says the consultation now begins in an app. She has swapped general warnings for named harms.
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The Aug. 10 order also cuts the routine childhood list from 18 vaccines to 11 on the argument that the United States is out of step with Europe, and the pediatricians who have read it say no new safety or efficacy data came with it.
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Four deaths in a 693-case Pennsylvania outbreak have been attributed to measles by state officials and a county coroner, while the CDC's 2026 measles death count stands at zero pending the coding of death records.
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Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America will spend Olivia and Tom Walton's initial $100 million on grants that states have to match, so legislatures decide the size of the campaign when they write their appropriations.
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Pennsylvania has recorded 676 measles cases and three deaths in recent weeks. The CDC has not registered the two infant deaths as measles-related, and its director says the state did not notify the agency of the third.
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Semaglutide's approval starts above age 12 and tirzepatide's obesity approval at 18, but a published study and one Dallas hospital's own count both show children under 12 already taking these drugs, mostly for obesity and type 2 diabetes.
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Nearly 13,000 reported cases were tied to recalled iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico. Federal officials still cannot say how sewage contaminated enough food to sicken that many people.
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Berkeley banned sugary drink and snack displays at the register in March 2021. A Lancet Public Health analysis of 71 stores reports soda and small-package candy sales down where compliance was highest, while total candy sales did not fall.
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