Kennedy鈥檚 Vaccine Advisers Sow Doubts as Scientists Protest US Pivot on Shots
A new vaccine advisory panel appointed by the HHS secretary, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, reflected his unsupported claims about the safety of childhood inoculations.
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What RFK Jr. Isn鈥檛 Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer
Vaccines are under fire from the top of the Trump administration. Federal programs to monitor them and make them safer have always been underfunded.
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鈥榃e Need To Keep Fighting鈥: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding
While Congress fails to stave off cuts to HIV care, community leaders in Mississippi and beyond race to limit the damage.
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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.
Newer formulations are even more effective at preventing illnesses that commonly afflict seniors 鈥 perhaps even dementia.
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With Property Seized and Federal Funding Uncertain, Montana Asbestos Clinic Fights for Its Life
The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, closed in May after a court judgment allowing BNSF Railway to seize its assets. Now, the clinic鈥檚 federal funding is in jeopardy, too.
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NIH Workers Risk Retaliation by Openly Protesting Trump Policies
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CDC Staffing Upheaval Disrupts HIV Projects and Wastes Money, Researchers Say
Researchers laid off in April were putting the finishing touches on in-depth HIV surveys that guide treatment and prevention. Some staff have been reinstated, but data remains in limbo.
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Kennedy鈥檚 HHS Sent Congress 鈥楯unk Science鈥 To Defend Vaccine Changes, Experts Say
A look inside the Department of Health and Human Services document citing vaccine misinformation that could influence congressional perceptions.
RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn鈥檛
Episode 401Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week did something he had promised not to do: He fired every member of the scientific advisory committee that recommends which vaccines should be given to whom. And he replaced them, in some cases, with vaccine skeptics. Meanwhile, hundreds of employees of the National Institutes of Health sent an open letter to the agency鈥檚 director, accusing the Trump administration of policies that 鈥渦ndermine the NIH mission.鈥 Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine join 吃瓜不打烊鈥 Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.
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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’
吃瓜不打烊 gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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Watch: RFK Jr. Dismisses All 17 Members of Vaccine Advisory Committee
吃瓜不打烊鈥 C茅line Gounder joined CBS Evening News to discuss the unprecedented move by the Health and Human Services secretary.
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Echoing 2020, Police Use Rubber Bullets Against Protesters in Los Angeles
鈥淟ess lethal鈥 weapons are once again being used in Los Angeles 鈥 against people protesting the Trump administration鈥檚 immigration raids. With terms like 鈥渇oam,鈥 鈥渟ponge,鈥 and 鈥渂ean bag,鈥 the projectiles may sound harmless. They鈥檙e not.
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鈥榃e Dissent鈥: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That 鈥楬arm the Health of Americans鈥
A letter signed by more than 300 National Institutes of Health workers 鈥 some still working, others who were fired this year 鈥 is an extraordinary public rebuke of actions taken under Director Jay Bhattacharya and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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In Axing mRNA Contract, Trump Delivers Another Blow to US Biosecurity, Former Officials Say
The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health budgets, and withdraws funding for bird flu vaccines, health security experts said.
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In a Dusty Corner of California, Trump’s Threatened Cuts to Asthma Care Raise Fears
The Trump administration wants to shutter the CDC鈥檚 National Asthma Control Program, which provides millions in funding to state-administered initiatives aimed at fighting the disease. The program鈥檚 closure, combined with massive cuts to environmental programs, could put the 28 million Americans with asthma at increased risk.
Trump鈥檚 鈥極ne Big Beautiful Bill鈥 Lands in Senate. Our 400th Episode!
Episode 400The House鈥檚 gigantic tax-and-spending budget reconciliation bill has landed with a thud in the Senate, where lawmakers are divided in their criticism over whether it increases the deficit too much or cuts Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act too deeply. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office鈥檚 estimate that the bill, if enacted, could increase the ranks of the uninsured by nearly 11 million people over a decade won鈥檛 make it an easy sell. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join 吃瓜不打烊鈥 Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews 吃瓜不打烊鈥 Arielle Zionts, who reported and wrote the latest 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 feature, about a Medicaid patient who had an out-of-state emergency.
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Trump Decried Crime in America, Then Gutted Funding for Gun Violence Prevention
The U.S. Department of Justice canceled $500 million in grants to public safety organizations nationwide, including some that address gun violence. A clinic in St. Louis lost a $2 million award to develop a mobile clinic, increase mental health services, and engage the community.
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Trump Administration Is Ending Multiple HIV Vaccine Studies, Scientists and Officials Say
The cuts will shutter two major HIV vaccine research efforts, and a National Institutes of Health senior official said the agency has been instructed not to issue any more HIV vaccine research funding in the next fiscal year, with few exceptions.
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Native Americans Hurt by Federal Health Cuts, Despite RFK Jr.鈥檚 Promises of Protection
The Indian Health Service was mostly spared in the federal government鈥檚 widespread staffing cuts, but tribal governments and organizations have lost funding elsewhere in the melee of federal health agency cuts.
Live From AHCJ: Shock and Awe in Federal Health Policy
Episode 399This episode was taped live on Friday, May 30, at the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists in Los Angeles. Host Julie Rovner moderated a panel featuring Rachel Nuzum, senior vice president for policy at The Commonwealth Fund; Berenice N煤帽ez Constant, senior vice president of government relations and civic engagement at AltaMed Health Services; and Anish Mahajan, chief deputy director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The panelists discussed the national, state, and local implications of funding cuts made over the first 100 days of the second Trump administration and the potential fallout of reductions that have been proposed but not yet implemented. The panelists also took questions from health reporters in the audience.