Infectious disease expert assumes Fauci role at NIH; more adults now susceptible to measles

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NIH Infectious disease expert Jeanne Marrazzo assumes Fauci role at NIH Infectious disease expert Jeanne Marrazzo will take Anthony Fauci's job atop the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. By Sarah Owermohle Measles was once seen as a childhood disease. Increasingly, adults are susceptible, too A report from the United Kingdom's Health Security Agency suggested the growing pool of non-immune adults could fuel future measles outbreaks. By Helen Branswell Henrietta Lacks settlement hailed by experts as step toward correcting medicine's racist history Henrietta Lacks' family settled a lawsuit with Thermo Fisher Scientific over the biotech's use of cells obtained without her consent. By Annalisa Merelli Mike Reddy for STAT Affirmative action improved public health — and carried a high personal cost for Black physicians I survived my medical education, but I did not emerge from that process unscathed. It left me with mixed emotions about affirmative action. By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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