Health
Trump Administration Demands Hospitals Share Emergency Room Records – KFF Health News
[ad_1] A tiny federal agency tasked with protecting the public from injuries caused by lawn mowers and coffeemakers is demanding that some of the…
Tag: Vaccines
Sacramento, California Local News
California health officials stress vaccinations as school year approaches
[ad_1] California health officials stress vaccinations as school year approaches As the school year approaches, California health officials are urging parents to update their…
Health
Journalists Dig Into HHS’ Covid Injury List, ACA Sign-Ups, and Telehealth – KFF Health News
[ad_1] Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the Department of Health and Human Services’ plan to offer compensation for automatic…
Health
Anguished Parents. Doctors in Tears. Utah’s Long Measles Outbreak Takes a Toll. – KFF Health News
[ad_1] SALT LAKE CITY — Ben Dowse hadn’t expected to treat measles when he became a doctor, but there he was, examining a newborn…
Breaking News
One Vaccine-Schedule Change That Actually Makes Sense
[ad_1] Developing an H.P.V. vaccine was distinctly challenging. One reason was that cancers from H.P.V. usually occur many years after the initial infection. A…
Fact Checking
RFK Jr. broke vaccines promises made in Senate confirmation
[ad_1] One year after taking charge of the nation’s health department, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn’t held true to…
US News
Calling the Shots: Tracking RFK Jr. on Vaccines
[ad_1] It was one of President Donald Trump’s more audacious picks for his Cabinet: anti-vaccine activist and alternative health advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.…
Los Angeles, California Local News
Flu Cases Rising As New Strain Circulates In California – LAmag
[ad_1] The California Department of Public Health announced the rise of a new strain of flu – one that could leave both young children…
Fact Checking
The vaccine schedule didn’t call for ‘72 injections’
[ad_1] To defend recent changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, the Trump administration compared shots for American babies with babies in an unspecified “European…
US News
US Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Canceling Pediatrics Group’s Grants
[ad_1] Jan 12 (Reuters) – A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating nearly $12 million in grant funding awarded to the…
Health
What the New Childhood Vaccine Schedule Means for You
[ad_1] On Jan. 5, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed the childhood immunization schedule after President Donald Trump ordered a…
Fact Checking
CDC sidelines six childhood vaccines. What do they prevent?
[ad_1] The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from…
Health
CDC Slashes Universal Vaccine Recommendations
[ad_1] As flu cases in the U.S. are rising dramatically, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, overseen by the Trump Administration’s Health and…
Atlanta, Georgia Local News
US overhauls childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots
[ad_1] (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services is recommending fewer vaccines for most American children, health officials said Monday. Health officials…
Health
How a Federal Vaccine Safety Database Became a Magnet for Misinformation
[ad_1] There’s no way of knowing if anyone believed Dr. James Laidler back in 2004 when he reported that a flu vaccine had turned…
US News
USDA Confirms Bird Flu Case in Wisconsin Dairy Herd as New Wildlife Spillover
[ad_1] Dec 19 (Reuters) – The United States Department of Agriculture on Friday confirmed that a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a…
Nutrition
Is Aflatoxin a Concern? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Is “toxic mold syndrome” a real thing? What do we do about toxic mold contamination of food? In recent years, mold has been…
Fact Checking
Tylenol, vaccines, autism: Being a doctor in a year of lies
[ad_1] Dr. Mona Amin clicked on the email. The South Florida pediatric practice where she worked was changing its rules on whether to accept…
US News
New Variant Subclade K: What to Know as Flu Season Starts
[ad_1] Ahead of the holidays, cases in the U.S. are already increasing in most states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control…
US News
WHO Rebuts CDC: No Link Between Vaccines and Autism
[ad_1] A new analysis from experts gathered by the World Health Organization found no link between vaccines and autism – countering a recently revised…