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Kennedy names new members of CDC vaccine advisory panel days after removing previous advisers
Vaccines Federal agencies Respiratory viruses See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow Just two days after retiring the entirety of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has appointed several prominent critics of …
NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies
See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow In October 2020, two months before Covid-19 vaccines would become available in the US, Stanford health policy professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and two colleagues published an open letter calling for a contrarian approach to managing the risks of the pandemic: …
A ‘detox’ after Covid vaccination? Experts say it’s nonsense
Vaccines Respiratory viruses See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow Podcast host Meghan McCain, the former co-host of “The View,” made headlines when she posted to social media recently in support of a “detox” supplement to be taken after Covid-19 vaccination or infection. The “detox” supplement McCain …
Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs sickens dozens of people across 7 states
Food & health Corporate news See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow More than 70 people across seven states have been sickened due to a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs recalled by a California-based egg distributor, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On …
RFK Jr. removes all current members of CDC vaccine advisory committee
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, saying the group is “plagued with conflicts of interest.” The entirety of the 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the …
A West Virginia prosecutor is warning women that a miscarriage could lead to criminal charges
Maternal health Women’s health Abortion rights See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow Amid a constantly changing reproductive landscape, one West Virginia prosecutor is warning people who have miscarriages in his state that they could get in trouble with the law. Raleigh County Prosecuting Attorney Tom Truman …