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Trump admin fires more health employees amid government shutdown

Questionable cull Today's layoffs are the work of White House Budget Director Russell Vought, a lead creator of the Project 2025 playbook, which planned a...

Childhood vaccines safe for a little longer as CDC cancels advisory meeting

An October meeting of a key federal vaccine advisory committee has been canceled without explanation, sparing the evidence-based childhood vaccination schedule from more erosion—at least...

Despite RFK Jr.’s shenanigans, COVID shot access will be a lot like last year

In an interview with Ars Technica in August, Brigid Groves, vice president of professional affairs for the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) signaled that efforts to...

Discovery of cells that keep immune responses in check wins medicine Nobel Prize

Today, finding a mutation on the X chromosome would be relatively easy. But in the 1990s, it was a labor-intensive effort. After narrowing the mutation's...

Nearly 80% of Americans want Congress to extend ACA tax credits, poll finds

According to new polling data, nearly 80 percent of Americans support extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits, which are set to expire...

In 2022, the world axed a disease name seen as racist. US just switched back.

Switching names In November 2022, the WHO decided to change the name. The United Nations health agency noted that it had received reports from individuals...

Woman hospitalized with pain and vomiting—diet soda cured her

There are also trichobezoars, which are formed by consuming hair—something linked to hair-pulling and eating disorders (trichotillomania and trichophagia). Lactobezoars are made from milk products...

Bonkers CDC vaccine meeting ends with vote to keep COVID shot access

At one point, Hillary Blackburn, a pharmacist and daughter-in-law of Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), noted that her mother developed lung cancer two years after getting...

In new level of stupid, RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisors axe MMRV recommendation

In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration approved a combo shot for all four—the MMRV vaccine—which provided an alternative to the previous method of giving...

RFK Jr. adds more anti-vaccine members to CDC vaccine advisory panel

Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who is a senior fellow at the Independent Medical Alliance (formerly Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance), which promotes misinformation...

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