One policy advocate described the move as “a total capitulation to the demands of drug corporation lobbyists.”
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Trump Signs Executive Order Delaying Negotiations for Prescription Drug Prices Read Post »
On Wednesday, S.W., an award-winning probationary worker at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), spent the day crying in bed. S.W., who is being identified by her initials due to fear of retaliation for speaking out, is one of more than 24,000 federal probationary employees, those who have been in their jobs for […]
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Experts say outbreaks of preventable diseases could get much worse with Trump’s cuts to public health infrastructure.
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Along With Measles, Whooping Cough Cases Surge as Vaccine Rates Drop Read Post »
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to have it both ways when it comes to the measles vaccine. In his first sit-down interview in his role as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—which was taped Tuesday and aired on CBS News Wednesday morning—Kennedy claimed to endorse the vaccine after a record […]
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Don’t Believe RFK Jr.’s Flip-Flop on the Measles Vaccine Read Post »
As of this week, cases were nearing 650 in 22 states, on track to reach a 34-year high.
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Trump Cuts to Federal Health Funding Thwart Cities’ and States’ Measles Response Read Post »
In early 2015, the California Department of Public Health identified a case of measles in an 11-year-old who had recently traveled to Disneyland. Within a month, at least 125 US residents were stricken with the disease. About a third of them had visited the Magic Kingdom theme park, many were unvaccinated, and the outbreak spread […]
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During a Past Measles Outbreak, RFK Jr. Dismissed Concern as “Hysteria” Read Post »
When public health problems aren’t met with structural solutions, conspiracies cloaked in green rhetoric can flourish.
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Here’s How the Right Is Packaging Its Conspiracies in Environmentalism Read Post »
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