The committee, whose members were appointed by the health secretary and include vaccine skeptics, will meet on Thursday to review recommendations for several shots.

The parasitic infection schistosomiasis affects an estimated 200 million people globally, many of them children. But campaigns to identify and treat it face formidable hurdles.

After climbing in the business world, she received a dire diagnosis, spurring her to found leading nonprofit groups to promote early detection and research.

Regulators sent about 100 warning letters this week to drug advertisers, including to Hims & Hers, a major online provider of weight-loss drugs.

She co-founded the organization after she was outraged to learn that children were starving after World War I, when the British blocked aid to several countries.

“Fit for Life,” which she wrote with her husband, was a best seller in the 1980s promoting good health ahead of weight loss. But doctors were critical.

His innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, were based on his belief that “human birth cannot work as long as a woman is thinking.”

Contraceptives bought by U.S.A.I.D. have been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse. The U.S. government said the products were destroyed, but local authorities found them.

The agency plans to present accounts of deaths involving children and birth defects to an influential C.D.C. panel meeting next week.

We asked couples therapists to share the magic words that can strengthen bonds, even in the middle of a disagreement.

He gained a following for techniques, notably one known as mewing, that he said could help fix crooked teeth without surgery. The medical establishment disagreed.

Acute necrotizing encephalopathy, or A.N.E., can result from influenza or other infections, including Covid-19.