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Experts Lament Impact of HHS Cuts on Vaccine Science, Policy
(MedPage Today) -- In the aftermath of massive layoffs at HHS, a panel originally aimed at discussing vaccine science and policy quickly re-focused on the impact those cuts would have on infectious d
Read More'Natural Experiment' Ties Shingles Vaccine to Reduced Dementia Risk
(MedPage Today) -- Vaccination against herpes zoster, or shingles, was tied to significantly less dementia risk, a large-scale analysis of electronic health records in Wales showed.
Read MorePublic Health Groups Decry HHS Firings, Grant Cuts
(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration's abrupt slashing of billions in state, city, and county public health funds will dramatically reduce the ability to collect disease surveillance data to w
Read MoreSupreme Court Appears Divided Over Whether States Can End Planned Parenthood Funding
(MedPage Today) -- The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over whether states should be able to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, a case that comes amid a wider push from abortion
Read MoreC.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say
The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.
Read MoreA letter from the executive editor: The dramatic reshaping of health and medicine in the U.S.
The Trump administration and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are ushering in an extraordinary reshaping of health and medicine, STAT executive editor @rickberke writes in a letter to readers.
Read MoreInside the C.D.C., a Final ‘Love Letter’ Before Mass Layoffs
The agency’s injury center was among the departments that were largely gutted in Tuesday’s wave of dismissals. Read a staff member’s letter to colleagues while they awaited their fates.
Read MoreNIH sued over ‘ideological purge’ of DEI, Covid and vaccine research
Agency canceled billions in grants in move that went beyond Trump’s orders targeting diversity, suit allegesA group of public health experts and major labor organizations are suing the National Inst
Read MoreWho Is RFK Jr.'s Special Adviser Calley Means?
(MedPage Today) -- Calley Means and Casey Means, MD, have leveraged their entrepreneurial and medical backgrounds to launch themselves into HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Read MoreAI Chatbot Helps Mental Health; Neuroplastogen for PTSD: Magic Mushroom Dispensaries
(MedPage Today) -- A fully generative artificial intelligence (AI) therapy chatbot was effective for reducing mental health symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and eating disorders in an 8-week
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