With Midterms Looming, Journalists Consider Measles, Food Recalls, and Obamacare
吃瓜不打烊 journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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Trump Puts Autistic Kids in the Spotlight and Cuts Agencies Built To Protect Them
Researchers and disability rights advocates warn that the Trump administration鈥檚 dismantling of the Education Department and its erosions of civil rights oversight risk widening the disparities autistic children face in diagnosis, school support, and discrimination protection.
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Journalists Highlight Innovations in Vaccines and Safeguarding Maternal Health
吃瓜不打烊 journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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Kennedy Promised ‘Radical Transparency’ and ‘Gold-Standard Science.’ Trump’s Vaccine Order Promotes Neither.
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How Louisiana鈥檚 New Surgeon General Wants To Transform Public Health
Evelyn Griffin is pushing for more emphasis on wellness and prevention. She has also aligned with the MAHA movement in fighting government mandates and questioning the safety of some vaccines.
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Kennedy鈥檚 Quiet Hunt for Autism Culprits Stalls as Trump Orders Baseless Changes to Childhood Shots
The Trump administration is working to implement the president鈥檚 new order on childhood vaccines, which he publicly faulted for a rise in autism 鈥 even as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.鈥檚 closed-door research has yet to produce evidence linking them.
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Gounder Brings Clarity to Egg Freezing, AI Virus Creation, and New Trump Vaccine Order
吃瓜不打烊 editor-at-large for public health C茅line Gounder made several TV appearances recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a roundup.
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Pediatricians and Health Departments Sidestep Trump鈥檚 CDC on Vaccine Guidance
When the Trump administration upended years of vaccine advice, it left pediatricians in a quandary. Many say they can no longer direct families to the CDC as a trusted source of information. So some are creating their own.
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Trump Administration Demands Hospitals Share Emergency Room Records
The tiny federal agency that tracks consumer product safety is pressuring hospitals to turn over patient records from emergency room visits, including about injuries that have nothing to do with consumer products.
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鈥楾he Child Is Terrified鈥: Doctors on the Front Lines of a Measles Comeback Speak Out
Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah as the U.S. faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease.
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Watch: GOP Senator Says Trump鈥檚 Tariffs Could Mean Safer Drugs 鈥 For a Price
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana chairs the Senate鈥檚 health committee. In an interview with 吃瓜不打烊鈥 Julie Rovner, he discusses the drug supply, his proposal to defray out-of-pocket costs, and his controversial vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.
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American Scientists See Prosecutions as Part of Federal Campaign Against Them
Federal officials charged two virologists they stopped en route from an African disease outbreak with violating import rules. But scientists tell 吃瓜不打烊 the inactivated samples they carried posed no threat to the public, and they characterize the arrests as part of a government harassment campaign.
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Journalists Dig Into HHS’ Covid Injury List, ACA Sign-Ups, and Telehealth
吃瓜不打烊 journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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Trump鈥檚 CDC Nominee Praises Vaccines, Without Vowing Independence From Kennedy
President Donald Trump鈥檚 nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Erica Schwartz, expressed support for vaccines, including covid shots, in her confirmation hearing. That contrasts with the stance of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Readers Share Personal Insights on Deadly Denials and Pregnancy Centers
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Would Hunters Take a Lyme Disease Vaccine? We Asked
American hunters skew conservative, rural, and male 鈥 all associated with increased hesitancy about or resistance to vaccines. At the same time, hunters spend more time than most people outdoors and potentially exposed to Lyme disease. So how do they feel about a potential new vaccine against the tick-borne illness?
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Efforts To End School Vaccine Mandates Hit a Wall in Florida
The state鈥檚 campaign to end school vaccine requirements is dead for now. The reasons could offer insights into similar efforts鈥 chances in other states.
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Readers Curse Medical Debt and Defend Spelling Therapy
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Anguished Parents. Doctors in Tears. Utah鈥檚 Long Measles Outbreak Takes a Toll.
Measles has been spreading in Utah for nearly a year, straining hospitals, schools, and parents. The state鈥檚 outbreak provides a glimpse into a new era in America鈥檚 health, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
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MAHA鈥檚 Treatments for Autism: Camel鈥檚 Milk, Stem Cell Injections 鈥 And Spelling Therapy
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.鈥檚 new autism panel is championing a controversial communication method popular among parents of severely autistic people. Critics warn of abuse 鈥 and fake 鈥渢elepathy.鈥
By Arthur Allen