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F.D.A. Relaxes Rules on β€˜Naturally Derived’ Dyes

Food makers will now be able to claim that their products have β€œno artificial colors,” so long as they use dyes that are not petroleum-based.

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β€œWe’re asking people now, β€˜Eat real food,’” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at the Tennessee State Capitol on Wednesday.
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N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Seeks Whistle-Blower Protection

Jenna Norton, a National Institutes of Health employee, has been an outspoken critic of the administration’s research cuts and has been on paid leave.

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Jenna Norton last spring organized The Bethesda Declaration, a public letter that denounced what its authors viewed as the administration’s dismantling of the federal biomedical research apparatus.
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William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89

His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He also led the C.D.C. and promoted childhood vaccination worldwide.

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William H. Foege in 1985. He played a critical role in making smallpox the first infectious disease to be altogether eliminated. He stood beside a bust of Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health, at C.D.C. headquarters in Atlanta.
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