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Viewpoints: GLP-1s May Curb Addiction, Keep Families Together; CDC Nominee Will Likely Clash With RFK Jr.

Opinion writers discuss these public health matters.

GLP-1s have been shown to reduce drug cravings. What if they can help prevent drug-fueled child abuse and neglect? (Naomi Schaefer Riley, 4/29)

The White House has nominated Erica Schwartz, a strikingly conventional candidate, to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Schwartz, formerly a deputy US surgeon general, is a lawyer and medical doctor by training. She鈥檚 by most accounts a decent choice. If confirmed, she鈥檒l face three big challenges. (4/30)

Our former colleagues in Congress recently heard from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the first time in more than half a year. (Michael C. Burgess and Larry Bucshon, 4/30)

The 2026 Main Residency Match was the largest in the program鈥檚 74-year history. With 48,050 active applicants, 41,482 residency training positions were filled. Among the celebrations, however, Match Day announcements triggered a surge of posts on X and other social media platforms calling for new restrictions on international medical graduates (IMGs) in the match, claiming that U.S. medical graduates (USMGs) had been displaced. (Manal Khan, Abishek Bala and Sarah Mohiuddin, 4/30)

Social media has turbocharged the normalization of cosmetic work. One plastic surgeon said that his Gen Z patients take selfies at their appointments 鈥渁s if it鈥檚 a concert or a 鈥榞et ready with me鈥 video. They want everyone to know.鈥 Like haul vlogs, it鈥檚 a way to say, 鈥淟ook what I just bought.鈥 (Amy Odell, 4/30)

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