Tag: CDC
CDC sharply narrows routine childhood vaccine guidance under Trump administration overhaul
Medical organizations warn changes bypassed scientific review and could increase preventable illness.
Sanders demands senate scrutiny of RFK Jr. over war on science
Senate Democrats say Kennedy has undermined scientific agencies as preventable diseases surge.
Trump administration reverses part of CDC ‘Friday night massacre,’ but experts...
Hundreds of scientists rehired after erroneous layoffs, yet key offices still eliminated as public health experts describe a “devastating” blow to U.S. preparedness.
Democrat moves to impeach RFK Jr. over HHS turmoil
Michigan congresswoman cites disinformation, research cuts, and advisory shifts at HHS as grounds for impeachment.
RFK Jr. faces widespread calls to resign after heated senate hearing
Democrats, medical groups, and even prominent Kennedys demand the HHS secretary step down as senate scrutiny intensifies and vaccine access confusion widens.
Wednesday night massacre at CDC: Resignations, walkout, and a showdown over...
After the removal of Director Susan Monarez, top CDC officials resign and staff walk out as RFK Jr.’s HHS faces bipartisan alarm.
Senate Democrats investigate RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine purge at CDC
Bernie Sanders and top Senate Democrats demand answers after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousts all 17 CDC vaccine experts and installs anti-vaccine activists in their place.
‘A clown show:’ RFK Jr. fires CDC panel & stacks it...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrew U.S. funding for the world’s preeminent international vaccine organization.
Food museums uncover the culture, science, and history behind the food...
Institutions like New York City’s Museum of Food and Drink are making food literacy fun.
Harm reduction, not border cops, credited for historic drop in US...
Experts say grassroots public health efforts—not federal drug crackdowns—are driving the largest decline in overdose deaths ever recorded, despite ongoing political attacks on harm reduction.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.