Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg, leader of the Food and Drug Administration division responsible for regulating prescription and over-the-counter drugs, is leaving her post, a senior FDA official confirmed.
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Doctors are monitoring an Ebola epidemic in Africa that may be to blame for dozens of deaths so far. Lilia Luciano reports and spoke with a U.S. doctor who recovered from the virus.
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President Trump wrapped up a two-day summit in China with future arms sales to Taiwan in some doubt and scant details on future Chinese purchases of American jets and soybeans. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California joins “The Takeout” with his reaction to the trip.
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The International Space Station-bound SpaceX Cargo Dragon is loaded with 6,500 pounds of needed equipment, research gear and crew supplies.
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Firefighters responded to a fire at Robbins Lumber in Searsmont, Maine, about 95 miles from Portland.
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President Trump’s trip to China could bolster economic relations, but failed to deliver a breakthrough deal, some trade and energy experts said.
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Two days of talks in Washington between Lebanon and Israel produced an extension of the current ceasefire by 45 days.
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A terror plot targeting Jewish institutions in New York, California and Arizona has been foiled, and a man linked to the alleged scheme is under arrest on Friday. Prosecutors say the Iraqi suspect is tied to other global attacks and claim he wanted payback for the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran. Tom Hanson reports.
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In this web exclusive, famed violinist Itzhak Perlman talks with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook about his experience after contracting polio as a child, several years before the development of a polio vaccine, and the obstacles in life to which he has had to adjust because of his disability. He has advice for those who question taking the vaccine. He also talks about the effect of music on the brain, and how he wishes to be remembered.
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An Iraqi national allegedly plotted to carry out terror attacks in the U.S., including at a prominent synagogue in New York, prosecutors said Friday
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