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FILE - Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, with the FDA, listens during a meeting of the Advisory Committee in Immunization Practices at the CDC, June 25, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
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FDA official who scrutinized COVID shots and antidepressants is out in latest shake-up

Read full article: FDA official who scrutinized COVID shots and antidepressants is out in latest shake-up

The Food and Drug Administration's top drug official is leaving in the latest shake-up at the powerful health agency.

FILE - President Donald Trump walks with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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A judge is protecting youth gender care in Kansas while a settlement in Texas attacks it

Read full article: A judge is protecting youth gender care in Kansas while a settlement in Texas attacks it

A Kansas judge has protected access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors as the nation’s largest children’s hospital moved to restrict such care in Texa and buckled under pressure from the Trump administration.

A jet carrying passengers from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius arrives at RAAF Base Pearce in Perth, Australia, from the Netherlands on Friday, May 15, 2026. (Aaron Bunch/AAP Image via AP)
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6 passengers from hantavirus-hit ship arrive in Australia for 3-week quarantine

Read full article: 6 passengers from hantavirus-hit ship arrive in Australia for 3-week quarantine

Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak have arrived in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks.

FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)
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Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion pill, while lawsuit plays out

Read full article: Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion pill, while lawsuit plays out

The Supreme Court has preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.

FILE - The main entrance to Rhode Island Hospital is seen in Providence, R.I., on Nov. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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Judge blocks Trump administration’s demand for Rhode Island hospital's records of transgender kids

Read full article: Judge blocks Trump administration’s demand for Rhode Island hospital's records of transgender kids

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island's largest hospital.

FILE - Passengers board a plane bound for Eindhoven, after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez,File)
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The world's reaction to hantavirus is tinged by echoes of something else: COVID

Read full article: The world's reaction to hantavirus is tinged by echoes of something else: COVID

The coronavirus pandemic's impact lingers, influencing our lives in both obvious and subtle ways.

Passengers stand aboard the British cruise ship Ambition, as French authorities have ordered 1,700 passengers and crew to stay on board due to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak, in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Caroline Blumberg)
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France allows asymptomatic passengers off new cruise ship struck by stomach bug outbreak

Read full article: France allows asymptomatic passengers off new cruise ship struck by stomach bug outbreak

Passengers unaffected by an illness outbreak on a British cruise ship have been allowed to disembark in the French port city of Bordeaux.

Vice President JD Vance arrives to deliver remarks concerning the Trump administration's efforts to combat fraud, in Bangor, Maine, Thursday, May 14, 2026. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
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Vance promotes Trump administration's work to counter fraud while criticizing Democrats in Maine

Read full article: Vance promotes Trump administration's work to counter fraud while criticizing Democrats in Maine

Vice President JD Vance is highlighting the Trump administration’s efforts to combat fraud in a visit to Maine ahead of the state’s primary elections for several high-profile races.

Dr. Marty Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, speaks while, from left, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Joe Rogan, President Donald Trump, Joe Rogan and CEO of Americans for Ibogaine W. Bryan Hubbard listen in the Oval Office of the White House, Saturday, April 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

FDA chief's resignation widens a leadership gap at the nation's health department

Read full article: FDA chief's resignation widens a leadership gap at the nation's health department

Dr. Marty Makary's resignation from his post atop the Food and Drug Administration is widening a leadership gap that already existed at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A barrier is set in front of the British cruise ship Ambition, as French authorities have ordered 1,700 passengers and crew to stay on board due to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak, in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Caroline Blumberg)

France confines more than 1,700 on British cruise ship in Bordeaux after gastroenteritis outbreak

Read full article: France confines more than 1,700 on British cruise ship in Bordeaux after gastroenteritis outbreak

French authorities have ordered over 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship to stay on board due to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak.

The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is seen at anchor at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

Company says it’s not clear when its hantavirus-hit ship will start cruises again

Read full article: Company says it’s not clear when its hantavirus-hit ship will start cruises again

Oceanwide Expeditions says it expects to know by the end of the week if the MV Hondius cruise ship will keep to its schedule after a hantavirus outbreak.

Nebraska Medicine's Davis Global Center is seen on Sunday, May 10,2026 in Omaha, Neb. where American passengers from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship will quarantine. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz)

Cruise ship passenger making best of quarantine in US after hantavirus outbreak

Read full article: Cruise ship passenger making best of quarantine in US after hantavirus outbreak

When Jake Rosmarin boarded the MV Hondius, he gleefully posted on social media that the ship would be home for 35 days as he and more than 100 other passengers and crew were to travel across the South Atlantic.

FILE - Health care workers walk in and out of the entrance at NYU-Langone Hospital on Dec. 14, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen, File)

Federal prosecutors seek NYU hospital information on gender-affirming care for children

Read full article: Federal prosecutors seek NYU hospital information on gender-affirming care for children

A New York health care system has received a federal grand jury subpoena issued in Texas seeking information about children who received gender-affirming care and the medical providers who administered it.

Dr. Marty Makary, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, attends an event on health care affordability in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump's FDA chief is out after angering pharma CEOs, vaping lobbyists and anti-abortion activists

Read full article: Trump's FDA chief is out after angering pharma CEOs, vaping lobbyists and anti-abortion activists

Marty Makary is resigning as President Donald Trump's Food and Drug Administration chief.

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Revolutionary new drug in pancreatic cancer treatment could double survival rate

Read full article: Revolutionary new drug in pancreatic cancer treatment could double survival rate

It is poised to revolutionize cancer treatment. An experimental drug that targets pancreatic cancer is being fast tracked for approval by the FDA. How promising is this drug’s impact? Its testing is being called a watershed moment in cancer treatment. Dr. Bijoy Telivala, an oncologist with Cancer Specialists of North Florida, joined News4Jax anchor Bruce Hamilton to discuss this new drug that can double the survival rate in patients with an advanced form of pancreatic cancer.

An ambulance enters the Bichat Hospital where a woman who tested positive for hantavirus remains in intensive care, in Paris, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French hantavirus patient is critically ill and on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11

Read full article: French hantavirus patient is critically ill and on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11

A doctor says a French woman being treated for hantavirus after being infected on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung.

This photo provided by Russ Grazier shows conductor Debbi Gibson leading a band rehearsal at the New England Adult Music Camp in Sidney, Maine, in August 2025. (Russ Grazier via AP)

Adults relive the musical camaraderie of their youth at band camps reprised for grown-ups

Read full article: Adults relive the musical camaraderie of their youth at band camps reprised for grown-ups

Some adults are turning to music camps as an antidote to a world of increased isolation as they decide on their summer plans.

FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Supreme Court temporarily extends women's access to a widely used abortion pill

Read full article: Supreme Court temporarily extends women's access to a widely used abortion pill

The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect.

Passengers are sprayed with disinfectant by Spanish government officials before boarding a plane after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries for monitoring

Read full article: Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries for monitoring

The last remaining passengers on a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have disembarked and boarded flights to more than 20 countries to enter quarantine.

FILE- Students play ball during recess at the St. Agnes Elementary School in Phoenix, Ariz., on March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-MIlls, File)

Pediatrics group issues new guidance on recess for the first time in 13 years

Read full article: Pediatrics group issues new guidance on recess for the first time in 13 years

For the first time in more than a decade, a leading pediatricians group has put out new guidance about recess, saying it’s crucial for good health and good grades and should be part of the school day for students of all ages.

Passengers are disembarked from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

One evacuated passenger tests positive for hantavirus and another develops symptoms on flight home

Read full article: One evacuated passenger tests positive for hantavirus and another develops symptoms on flight home

Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands.

Ascension St. Vincent’s hosted its Medical Mission at Home event Saturday at the Prime Osborn Convention Center, offering free health and wellness services to uninsured and underserved members of the Jacksonville community.

Jacksonville event offering free health and wellness services is ‘a big help’ for local patients struggling financially

Read full article: Jacksonville event offering free health and wellness services is ‘a big help’ for local patients struggling financially

Ascension St. Vincent’s hosted its Medical Mission at Home event Saturday at the Prime Osborn Convention Center, offering free health and wellness services to uninsured and underserved members of the Jacksonville community.

Katie Anderson says a big transformation is making a difference in her experience of motherhood.

St. Johns woman shares new perspective of Mother’s Day after ‘transformational’ gastric bypass surgery

Read full article: St. Johns woman shares new perspective of Mother’s Day after ‘transformational’ gastric bypass surgery

A St. Johns County woman has a new respect for Mother’s Day after surgery changed her life. Katie Anderson says a big transformation is making a difference in her experience of motherhood.

A Spanish Civil Guard officer inspects the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Experts wonder 'Where is the CDC?' as a hantavirus outbreak unfolds on a cruise ship

Read full article: Experts wonder 'Where is the CDC?' as a hantavirus outbreak unfolds on a cruise ship

Public health experts are questioning the U.S. government's response to the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that involves Americans.

Spanish Civil Guard officers stand guard in the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

WHO head seeks to reassure residents of Spanish island where hantavirus-stricken ship is headed

Read full article: WHO head seeks to reassure residents of Spanish island where hantavirus-stricken ship is headed

The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife worried about the anticipated arrival there of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.

An aerial view of Ushuaia, Argentina, Friday, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Joel Reyero)

Argentina's hot spot for Antarctic cruises insists it didn't cause the hantavirus outbreak

Read full article: Argentina's hot spot for Antarctic cruises insists it didn't cause the hantavirus outbreak

Argentina’s tourism-dependent province — Tierra del Fuego, home to the southernmost city of Ushuaia — is reacting angrily to the idea that the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard an Atlantic cruise ship may have emerged from its territory, pushing instead for investigations into the other Argentine provinces passengers visited before boarding the ill-fated cruise.

Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship into an ambulance at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

The Latest: Stricken cruise ship heads for the Canaries as authorities rush to identify contacts

Read full article: The Latest: Stricken cruise ship heads for the Canaries as authorities rush to identify contacts

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.