The Trump Funding Freeze Put a Chill in Public Health
A federal funding freeze announced by President Donald Trump ’s administration this week sparked concern in the public health ...
Trump's WHO Exit 'A Radical Move': Public Health Experts
Public health experts evaluate the global and financial impact of the U.S. leaving the World Health Organization.
Hypocrite RFK Jr.’s Senate nicotine pouch wrecks his own health agenda
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is publicly advocating for health as he tries to get confirmed as secretary of health and human ...
Americans still consider COVID major public health threat
People still see COVID-19 as an ongoing public health threat, even though the pandemic officially ended in 2023, according to ...
Legal Weed Didn’t Deliver on Its Promises
Neither regulators nor police have attacked illegal production, promotion, and sale with sufficient vigor, perhaps because ...
Everything to know about Medicaid, the largest US public health insurance program
Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health care coverage to low-income individuals and families. It services over 79 million Americans.
When RFK Jr. was presented with the science on vaccines he said needed to see, he dismissed it
Kennedy repeatedly refused to acknowledge scientific consensus that childhood vaccines don’t cause autism and that COVID-19 ...
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How to protect HHS, FDA, NIH, and other health agencies from political interference
When politicians subordinate scientific institutions to electoral interests, they undermine immediate public health efforts ...
Slow hospital transfers are costing lives in Illinois, study finds
A new study from a Northwestern trauma surgeon found that up to 34% of critically injured patients who show up at a hospital ...
5 takeaways from RFK Jr.’s first confirmation hearing as Trump’s nominee for health secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion, and public health priorities in his first ...
Bird flu outbreak: Can America protect farmworkers and prevent a pandemic?
The killings of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont last week, a state’s witness in California, and a pair of senior citizens in ...
Private vs. public health care raises concerns
Healthcare unions on the Island are raising concerns over comments Health P.E.I.'s CEO made last week about the privatization ...