RFK Jr.鈥檚 MAHA Movement Has Picked Up Steam in Statehouses. Here鈥檚 What To Expect in 2026.
鈥淢ake America Healthy Again鈥 policies driven by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have made major strides in state legislatures, with food additives among the most common targets. The trend is expected to continue this year.
Vaccines Jettisoned by CDC Safeguarded Millions From Disease
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Aunque lleva varios a帽os en funcionamiento, el espacio se ha vuelto a煤n m谩s crucial en los 煤ltimos meses, con la administraci贸n Trump recortando fondos a muchas organizaciones de servicios sociales y adoptando una postura agresiva frente a las personas sin hogar y el consumo de drogas.
Thrift Store. Clinic. Roller Rink. Center Becomes 鈥楻adical鈥 Lifeline Amid Homelessness, Drug Crises.
Located in the Lower 9th Ward, this abandoned building has become a community sanctuary and resource.
In Lodge Grass, Montana, a Crow Community Works To Rebuild From Meth鈥檚 Destruction
Meth is a problem most everywhere, but particularly in Indian Country. On the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, new buildings serve as symbols of a town trying to rebuild after being devastated by addiction.
Las enfermedades y muertes que previenen las vacunas que los CDC han dejado de recomendar
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.
Inside the Battle for the Future of Addiction Medicine
The experiences of one doctor in Louisiana reveal the tensions around trying to get people to engage in addiction treatment, even if they鈥檙e not ready to stop using drugs.
The CDC Just Sidelined These Childhood Vaccines. Here鈥檚 What They Prevent.
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.
Seis tips para obtener f谩rmacos que previenen el VIH superando obst谩culos del sistema de salud
Los CDC calculan que 2,2 millones de personas en Estados Unidos podr铆an beneficiarse del uso de medicamentos preventivos contra el VIH, pero solo poco m谩s de una cuarta parte los recibe.
To Knock Down Health-System Hurdles Between You and HIV Prevention, Try These 6 Things
It鈥檚 been more than 10 years since the FDA first approved an HIV prevention drug. Today, people who could benefit from preexposure prophylaxis often struggle to access the lifesaving medicine or run into doctors without the education or empathy to offer affirming care. And those lapses can produce billing headaches.
Guns Marketed for Personal Safety Fuel Public Health Crisis in Black Communities
During the covid pandemic, gun marketers told many Americans they needed firearms to defend against criminals and protesters. Then firearm deaths mounted rapidly in racially segregated and low-income neighborhoods, according to federal data.
Inside the FDA鈥檚 Vaccine Uproar
An internal email claiming covid vaccines killed children triggered a formal response from a dozen past FDA commissioners. The email, sent by the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, outlines a framework that could have significant impact on the nation鈥檚 vaccine policies.
Las verificaciones de antecedentes para comprar armas aumentaron 60% de 2019 a 2020, a帽o en que el gobierno federal declar贸 la emergencia sanitaria por covid.
Ese mismo a帽o, m谩s de 45.000 personas murieron por violencia con armas de fuego.
Qu茅 significa la decisi贸n sobre la vacuna contra la hepatitis B para la gente
Un comit茅 de los Centros para el Control y Prevenci贸n de Enfermedades vot贸 para poner fin a la recomendaci贸n universal de aplicar la vacuna contra la hepatitis B a los reci茅n nacidos.
Vaccine Panel鈥檚 Hepatitis B Vote Signals Further Turbulence for Immunization Policy, Public Trust
Clinicians and epidemiologists warn the decision to no longer recommend the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine could unravel decades of progress and expose newborns to a deadly, preventable disease.
What the Health? From 麻豆女优 Health News: Crunch Time for ACA Tax Credits
Dec. 15 is the deadline to sign up for Affordable Care Act plans that begin Jan. 1, and Congress remains at odds over letting expanded tax credits for the plans鈥 premiums expire and increasing the cost of insurance for millions of Americans. Meanwhile, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to remake vaccine policy to reflect ideology rather than science. Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Maya Goldman of Axios, and Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times join 麻豆女优 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Georgetown professor Linda Blumberg about the GOP鈥檚 health plans.
This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC
HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump鈥檚 orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn鈥檛 spare the CDC from further harm.
In RFK Jr.鈥檚 Upside-Down World of Vaccines, Panel Votes To End Hepatitis B Shot at Birth
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.
El estatus de Estados Unidos depende de si los principales brotes ocurridos este a帽o tienen origen en el gran brote del oeste de Texas que comenz贸 oficialmente el 20 de enero.
While Scientists Race To Study Spread of Measles in US, Kennedy Unravels Hard-Won Gains
Scientists are conducting genetic analyses to see if the measles outbreak that started in Texas is still spreading from state to state. It鈥檚 a contentious question, because the findings may determine whether America loses its measles-free status.
