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Good morning. The U.K. will ban the sale of energy drinks to people under age 16, The New York Times reported yesterday. STAT’s Sarah Todd wrote earlier this year about how popular these drinks are among teens, and how new branding strategies have worsened consumer confusion .

RFK Jr.’s CDC reform plan looks awfully similar to another proposal

In the days after health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out the director of the CDC, he suggested sweeping changes were needed at the agency, writing in a Wall Street Journal opinion essay that he had “replaced leaders who resisted reform.” But many of Kennedy’s proposals match ideas laid out by ex-director Susan Mon

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