The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has received a five-year, $23.5 million award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics to ...

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a new interview, said autism was an epidemic with an impact that surpasses the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is an epidemic. It dwarfs the ...

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