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As ICE Moved In, Minnesotans Set Up a Shadow Medical System. It鈥檚 a Lesson for Other Cities.

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President Donald Trump鈥檚 immigration crackdown in Minneapolis forced families into hiding and catalyzed informal medical networks to deliver critical health care services.

Con la presencia del ICE, habitantes de Minnesota crearon un sistema m茅dico en las sombras. Un aprendizaje para otras ciudades

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Trabajadores de salud dicen que los agentes de inmigraci贸n siguen apostados en los estacionamientos de hospitales. Y drones sobrevuelan zonas agr铆colas en las afueras de Minneapolis, donde inmigrantes somal铆es y latinos se han establecido en los 煤ltimos a帽os.

Las enfermedades y muertes que previenen las vacunas que los CDC han dejado de recomendar

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El gobierno federal ha reducido dr谩sticamente la cantidad de vacunas infantiles recomendadas, dejando fuera seis inmunizaciones de rutina que han protegido a millones de personas de enfermedades graves, discapacidades a largo plazo y muertes.

The CDC Just Sidelined These Childhood Vaccines. Here鈥檚 What They Prevent.

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The CDC is recommending fewer childhood vaccines, although the ones it has jettisoned from the recommended schedule have successfully battled serious illness for years. Experts warn that if vaccine uptake falls, millions could be hospitalized 鈥 or worse 鈥 as a result of preventable diseases.

In RFK Jr.鈥檚 Upside-Down World of Vaccines, Panel Votes To End Hepatitis B Shot at Birth

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A session of a vaccine panel dominated by skeptics was chaotically at odds with past practices of the CDC, which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has described as a 鈥渃esspool of corruption.鈥 His crew voted to end a 34-year recommendation to vaccinate newborns against hepatitis B.

FDA鈥檚 Plan To Boost Biosimilar Drugs Could Stall at the Patent Office

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Drug industry officials and analysts praised the FDA鈥檚 plans to streamline regulation of 鈥渂iosimilars,鈥 which are cheaper alternatives to biologic drugs. But patents that block such drugs from the U.S. market are getting harder to fight.

M茅dicos, callados mientras Florida busca terminar con d茅cadas de mandatos de vacunaci贸n infantil

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Sin embargo, si las tasas de vacunaci贸n bajan, aumentan los casos de enfermedades como sarampi贸n, hepatitis, meningitis y neumon铆a e incluso podr铆an regresar enfermedades como la difteria y la poliomielitis.

Doctors Muffled as Florida Moves To End Decades of Childhood Vaccination Mandates

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Florida has announced plans to end mandatory vaccination. Now scientists are assessing which of several diseases deadly to children 鈥 whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus 鈥 are likely to make a resurgence and when.

Mercury in Your Hot Dog? Vaccine Skeptics Face Their Limits at Crucial CDC Meeting

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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meeting on vaccines pitted scientific expertise against vaccine skepticism. An often confusing debate ended with critics of the current vaccine schedule tabling a vote to remove one of its cornerstones.

Kennedy鈥檚 Take on Vaccine Science Fractures Cohesive National Public Health Strategies

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A lack of faith in the soundness of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention鈥檚 new direction has led states to explore enacting their own vaccine policies. A patchwork of divergent recommendations and requirements could result.

Watch: Fired CDC Chief Says RFK Jr. Demanded She Roll Back Vaccine Policies Without Evidence

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Susan Monarez and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief medical officer Debra Houry described turmoil in an agency dominated by anti-vaccine political officials nominated by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Under Trump, FDA Seeks To Abandon Expert Reviews of New Drugs

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Advisory committee meetings help FDA scientists make decisions and increase public understanding of drug regulation, and abandoning them doesn鈥檛 make sense, former officials said.

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research

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The National Institutes of Health鈥檚 long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to politicos, NIH workers say.

FTC Has Long Said Products Must Back Up Health Claims. A MAHA Lawsuit Would Upend That.

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Xlear, a maker of xylitol gum, has sued the Federal Trade Commission, saying the onus should be on government to prove that ingredients don鈥檛 live up to advertised claims. RFK Jr.鈥檚 鈥渕edical freedom鈥 allies have rallied to the cause.

World鈥檚 Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos

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After spearheading a 34% cut in cancer mortality, the National Cancer Institute at the NIH is bleeding resources and staff and could see its budget cut by nearly 40%.

Kennedy鈥檚 Vaccine Advisers Sow Doubts as Scientists Protest US Pivot on Shots

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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.