HEALTH

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. senators will vote next week on holding in contempt of Congress the man who led the U.S. response to the global pandemic in 2020. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said senators would vote to determine whether Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute for...

(Headline USA) Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from senators at Wednesday's much-anticipated hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci, who had already accepted a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden last year, was set to answer lawmakers’ questions after being subpoenaed by...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The diary of disgraced former White House COVID czar Anthony Fauci reveals a stark contrast between his private views and his public messaging on several pandemic-era controversies, including the lab leak theory and school closures. The diary, released Sunday by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul,...

(Merrilee Gasser, The Center Square) Anthony Fauci would likely be viewed by a District of Columbia jury as "an almost divine figure," says second-term Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ahead of the doctor's voice from COVID-19 testifying at the U.S. Senate. The governor also said the media's fawning of him "fueled...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Ahead of former COVID czar Anthony Fauci’s scheduled appearance Wednesday before the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, committee chair Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released a tranche of damning records shedding new light on Fauci’s private thoughts and actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. One email...

(Headline USA) Federal health officials on Friday said they have linked cases of a diarrhea-causing parasite tied to shredded lettuce to an additional four states, expanding the scope of the largest U.S. outbreak of cyclospora. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak first tied to Taco Bell...

(Headline USA) Health advisers met Thursday to review more than a half-dozen peptides, unproven substances that have become a growing wellness trend. In the first of several votes, the panel of Food and Drug Administration experts narrowly voted 8-6 in favor of broadening access to a chemical called BPC-157, one...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) EcoHealth Alliance founder Peter Daszak and recently retired university professor Ralph Baric were both collaborators with the Wuhan Virology Institute in China—where COVID-19 is suspected by some researchers to have originated. Daszak and Baric may also have been FBI informants, according to an April 2025 letter...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Famed TV physician and pundit Drew Pinsky --- aka Dr. Drew --- offered his medical opinion that, if autopsy reports about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s cause of death were to be believed, Graham may have been the latest victim of a COVID vaccine injury. During a podcast...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Department of War is mandating annual testosterone screening for every active-duty and reserve service member age 30 and older, a mandate affecting about 2 million troops. The Ddepartment declined to say how much the program will cost taxpayers or how it will determine...

(Headline USA) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that he is rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops, calling it necessary to allow them to operate at their "absolute best.” The new screenings will be conducted annually as part of service members' required medical screenings for those...

(Headline USA) An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than today’s treatments — by lowering levels of a brain protein called tau, researchers reported Tuesday. Tau is one part of a toxic duo fueling Alzheimer’s but prior attempts to develop drugs that can...