Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sanders Calls on RFK Jr. to resign after CDC shake-up and...
Amid a leadership purge at the CDC, Bernie Sanders says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “endangering the health of the American people” and urges a bipartisan investigation.
CDC reports drug overdose deaths decline 27% in 2024
With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.
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.
Trump Administration fires thousands of US health workers, putting well-being of...
Termination emails were sent out to employees of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and several smaller agencies.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Warren, Ocasio-Cortez introduce bill to ban corporate ownership of physician practices
The bill would let doctors sue corporate owners for treble damages and give the Federal Trade Commission a role in enforcing the ban.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.
Trump administration moves to let accidental killing of endangered species go unpunished
A leaked memo would count only deliberate harm as a violation of the 1973 law, even though most protected species die by accident.