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| Aug 10, 2026 | Trump Vaccine Executive Order Demands Split MMR Shots That Don’t Exist | By Brandon Fisher
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| Aug 5, 2026 | Senate confirms Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director, bringing new leadership to troubled agency | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, placing her in charge of a publ... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Senate committee advances nomination of Dr. Erica Schwartz to be Trump’s CDC director | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — A Senate committee on Thursday advanced Dr. Erica Schwartz’s nomination to be director of the nation’s top public health agency, setting aside conc... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | A few years of healthy eating and exercise influences health 2 decades later, new study shows | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Even a few years of healthier eating and exercise can show up in better health outcomes two decades later, a new national study found — but most people need significant support to make those change... |
| Jun 26, 2026 | A few years of healthy eating and exercise influences health 2 decades later, new study shows | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Even a few years of healthier eating and exercise can show up in better health outcomes two decades later, a new national study with Colorado ties found — but most people need significant support t... |
| May 30, 2026 | At least 3.5 million people have lost food stamp access as Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ cuts take effect, analysis finds | Consumers are facing higher costs when it comes to food, gas and other necessary items.
More than 3.5 million beneficiaries of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides food benefits to low-income indivi... |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Dr. Gail Christopher Reflects on Five Decades of Advocacy for Black Maternal Health at Black Maternal Health Conference | Dr. Gail C. Christopher
Sharing insights from her work, Dr. Christopher asserted that achieving health equity requires addressing racism at both individual and structural levels.
We must tackle the belief systems and structures that sustain... |
| Feb 18, 2026 | Public health, green groups sue EPA over repeal of rule supporting climate protections | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATTHEW DALY
WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, challenging the rescinding of a scientific finding that has b... |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Racial health disparities could widen as states grapple with Trump cuts, experts warn | Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org
Racial health disparities may widen as states, universities and nonprofits grapple with federal funding cuts to programs that were aimed at filling gaps in care, public health experts say. Related Articles
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| Oct 25, 2025 | The nation’s community health centers face money troubles | Shalina Chatlani, Stateline.org
NEW YORK — On a busy street in Queens, New York, just around the corner from a halal hot chicken sandwich restaurant and a barber shop, the Long Island City Health Center welcomes its patients into a brightly... |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Public Health Coalition to March to Capitol and Deliver Over 100,000 petition signatures demanding removal of RFK Jr | March for Health and Science Logo
A coalition of organizations will march to the Capitol on Nov. 5th to deliver over 100,000 petition signatures calling for the removal of RFK Jr. WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, October 20, 2025 /EINPresswir... |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Judge rules Trump’s mass terminations broke the law and risked public safety | In a sharply worded decision issued late Friday, a federal district judge ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by firing federal workers employed in vital roles protecting public safety and supporting the U.S. economy.
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| Sep 4, 2025 | Kennedy tries to defend COVID-19 vaccine stance in raucous Senate hearing | By MATT BROWN and MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., facing pointed bipartisan questioning at a rancorous three-hour Senate committee hearing on Thursday, tried to defend his efforts... |
| Aug 28, 2025 | The vaccine and public health debate at the center of CDC upheaval, explained | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is facing a leadership upheaval – and at the center is concerns about the agency’s approach to vaccines and U.S. public health.
The White House on Thursday said President Donald Trump had fired... |
| Aug 28, 2025 | CDC gets new acting director as leadership turmoil leaves agency reeling | No explanation given for CDC director’s ouster
Kennedy has not explained the decision to oust Monarez less than a month after she was sworn in, but he warned that more turnover could be coming.
“There’s a lot of trouble at the CDC and it’s ... |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Many Americans are stressed about money, 6 ways to cope | 1. Keep tabs on where your money is going
How much are your core monthly expenses? What is your discretionary income? How much money did you spend last month? Many Americans may not know the answers to these questions, which can make unders... |
| Aug 20, 2025 | At least 600 CDC employees are getting final termination notices, union says | Related Articles
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| Jul 8, 2025 | Trump administration pulls back on plans to rewrite Biden-era asbestos ban | All the work that’s gone into the current litigation shouldn’t be wasted, the nonprofit said. And a pause would also mean a delay in the rule’s implementation.
Lynn Ann Dekleva, the agency’s deputy assistant administrator of the Office of C... |
| Jul 8, 2025 | ‘MAHA Report’ calls for fighting chronic disease, but Trump and Kennedy have yanked funding | The report, a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, was issued by a commission that includes Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other top administration officials.
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| Jun 24, 2025 | Staying Upright: A Guide to Fall Prevention for Seniors | As we age, the world can feel like a slippery slope. Each step becomes a careful negotiation with gravity. For seniors, falls are not just a stumble; they can lead to serious injuries and even death. In the United States, over 14 million ad... |
| Jun 21, 2025 | How to prevent the risk of falls as you age – tips to help you stay on your feet | If you’ve ever watched children at a playground or visited a skating rink, you’ve undoubtedly seen people of all ages taking tumbles. Falling is never fun, but the consequences become more serious as we get older.
More than 14 million adult... |
| Jun 9, 2025 | RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee | Kennedy, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, said the committee members had too many conflicts of interest. Committee members routinely disclose any possible conflicts at the start of public meetings.
Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive dir... |
| Apr 23, 2025 | WesternU names Dr. Gail Evans Grayson as College of Health Sciences Dean | WesternU College of Health Sciences Dean Gail Evans Grayson, EdD, MA.
Western University of Health Sciences has appointed Gail Evans Grayson, EdD, MA, as Dean of the College of Health Sciences (CHS).
POMONA, Calif., April 23, 2025 /PRNewswi... |
| Feb 6, 2025 | ‘Voice of the CDC’ resumes publication, but experts worry about what they’re not hearing | Research on health effects of wildfires
One of the reports was about last year’s Maui wildfire. Researchers measured the blood of responding firefighters, looking for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. The manmade chemicals have ... |
| Jan 31, 2025 | National Politics | When RFK Jr. was presented with the science on vaccines he said needed to see, he dismissed it | He worries that Kennedy could further damage public confidence in vaccines and “we will see return of diseases that we really haven’t seen much of and unfortunately children will suffer.”
Kennedy “in many ways demonstrated his lack of capac... |
| Jan 28, 2025 | National Politics | What RFK Jr. might face in his nomination hearings this week | “They think they are going to go into office, pull back the curtain, find all this bad stuff, and reveal it to the American public,” he said.
During a measles epidemic in 2019 and 2020 that killed 83 people, mostly children, in Samoa, Kenne... |
| Jan 21, 2025 | The Fake Government ‘Efficiency’ Agency Known As DOGE Already Faces Multiple Lawsuits | One of the many new executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on Monday was the long-hyped creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE is portrayed as a sort of government efficiency and innovation office, but i... |
| Dec 24, 2024 | National Politics | Trump’s picks for top health jobs not just team of rivals but ‘team of opponents’ | “The heads of the FDA and NIH will be spending all their time explaining to their boss what a confidence interval is,” Cannon said, referring to a statistical term used in medical studies.
Those whose views prevail will have significant pow... |
| Dec 6, 2024 | National Politics | How backlash to the pandemic helped shape Trump’s health picks | Former Rep. Dave Weldon, Trump’s selection to head the CDC, is also a vaccine skeptic. Mehmet Oz, known more commonly as “Dr. Oz,” Trump’s choice to head CMS, promoted use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. FDA ... |
| Nov 18, 2024 | Health | Scientists fear what’s next for public health if RFK Jr. is allowed to ‘go wild’ | If Kennedy makes good on his vision for transforming public health, childhood vaccine mandates could wither. New vaccines might never win approval, even as the FDA allows dangerous or inefficient therapies onto the market. Agency websites c... |
| Nov 10, 2024 | The Unseen Guardians: The Crucial Role of Fire Watch Guards in Emergency Preparedness | In the world of fire safety, we often think of alarms, sprinklers, and fire exits. Yet, lurking in the shadows is a vital player: the fire watch guard. These trained professionals are the unsung heroes of emergency preparedness. They stand ... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | Health | Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress | But Brown called them “lucky,” with enough health insurance or money to see a doctor. The clinic serves patients along the infamous “Corridor of Shame,” a rural stretch of South Carolina with some of the worst health outcomes in the nation.... |
| Oct 31, 2024 | National Politics | Kennedy hints at vast health agency overhaul if Trump elected | Over the past two months, he has made appearances throughout the country to share his story on the state of Americans’ health, one that he says is characterized by corrupt regulatory agencies, children sickened by “ultra processed” foods an... |
| Oct 14, 2024 | Adriana Soares Leads Financial Strategy to Combat U.S. Opioid Crisis with Prime Mint | Share
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In the towns and cities of America, the opioid crisis has caused massive public dislocations, reshaping the social landscape with every gust. It has torn through the nation’s fabric, hollowing out lives and dra... |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Health | If lawsuit ends federal mandates on birth control coverage, states will have the say | And that perplexity surrounding coverage may get more complicated.
An ongoing federal lawsuit aims to strike down the ACA’s preventive care coverage requirements for private insurers. If the case knocks out the mandates, state-level laws — ... |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Farmworkers face high-risk exposures to bird flu, but testing isn’t reaching them | Federal officials told reporters May 22 that just 40 people connected to U.S. dairy farms had been tested for the virus, although others are being “actively monitored” for symptoms.
Federal authorities recently announced they would pay farm... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Edward Humes: Ours is the most wasteful civilization in history. Here’s how to stop that. | By Edward Humes
What if the looming calamities of climate change, plastic pollution, the energy crisis and our whole environmental doom-scroll are symptoms of just one malady and it’s something we actually can fix?
That’s right, the planet ... |
| Mar 18, 2024 | EPA bans import and use of last form of asbestos in U.S. | The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a ban on the last form of asbestos still used in the U.S.
Why it matters: The carcinogen is linked to more than 40,000 deaths per year in the U.S., and chrysotile asbestos is still use... |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Health | Post-pandemic vaccine hesitancy fueling latest measles outbreak | Ariel Cohen | CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
Cases of measles are rising across the country and seem to be striking counties at random, but experts say there is one thing the public health system can do to turn the tide, and that’s to stem the post-pan... |
| Jan 31, 2024 | San Antonio takes public health lens to violent crime | San Antonio is launching a new effort that looks beyond the police department to reduce violence and instead approaches crime as a public health issue that community organizations can help tackle.
Why it matters: Communities that lack prope... |
| Dec 4, 2023 | Big Weed today is a whole lot like Big Tobacco in the 1950s | OK, marijuana is now legal. So where’s the public health approach?
Strictly speaking, marijuana use isn’t fully legal across the U.S. yet. But when Montana and Missouri have legalized recreational use and the Senate is debating legal bankin... |
| Nov 14, 2023 | Innovative Healthcare Representation Model, KUCETF, Unveiled at APHA 2023 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia | Satpreet Singh (Right), Dr. Carissa Smock (Left)
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| Aug 16, 2023 | The CDC faces $1.5 billion in budget cuts. Layoffs will almost certainly follow | The nation’s health faces a dual threat — one anticipated, the other, self-inflicted.
Covid-19 has not gone away; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that infections are showing signs of a late summer wave. The new strain... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Use ‘racial privilege’ — not race — to measure and understand health | When I go to a health care provider and check “Black” for my race or ethnicity, it means that my provider — before even seeing me — knows I have dark skin and “different” hair. But the biases or stereotypes emanating from my answer could in... |
| Sep 22, 2022 | Public health agencies: learn from NASA about regaining the public’s trust | The amazing images of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope this summer, and before them the spectacular images from the Hubble telescope, have amazed and inspired many people worldwide, who now look to NASA as a t... |
| Aug 2, 2022 | How Health Systems Can Reduce Gun Violence, Here’s What Kaiser Permanente Is Doing | There has been at least 25,874 gun violence deaths and 22,706 injuries in the U.S. so far in 2022, ... [+] based on data from on the Gun Violence Archive. (Photo: Getty) getty |
| Jul 12, 2022 | Medical Education Diversity and Inclusion Effort gets $400K Shot in the Arm | Programs designed to mentor aspiring doctors and build a trustworthy health care system PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, July 12, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, leading internal medicine organizations announced the awarding of ... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | Four Climate Security Insights From the COVID-19 Pandemic Response | What can the U.S. and international coronavirus pandemic response teach us about the climate crisis? At their core, pandemics and climate change are complex, global collective action problems. They are also increasingly conceptualized as no... |
| Dec 30, 2021 | We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2021 | All through 2021, journalists around the globe have captivated and inspired our staff at STAT. Publications have tracked Covid-19’s twists and turns in the pandemic’s second year, from vaccine rollouts and inequity to the emergence of conce... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | In Minneapolis, home to George Floyd, heavy policing is tied to higher rates of preterm births | The longstanding toll of police violence on Black communities came into sharp relief last year with the murder of George Floyd. Now, a research team from Minneapolis, a city traumatized by the police killings of Floyd and other unarmed Blac... |
| Sep 23, 2021 | The brain health paradox: Dementia rates have fallen even as drugs have failed | Billions of dollars have been spent in pursuit of a pharmaceutical treatment for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Their fail rate through the 21st century is stuck at 100%.
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| Mar 8, 2021 | 911 And Racism: When The Emergency Response Fuels The Emergency | 911 calls can save lives, but are they always the best response?getty |
| Mar 8, 2021 | Climate Policy Platform: A Critical Step in Salesforce's Climate Action Plan | Salesforce has long been committed to setting ambitious climate targets and advocating for cutting edge public policy changes to drive climate action. Today, Salesforce is codifying that work by officially including climate as a part of the... |
| Jan 15, 2021 | 5 Ways To Sustain The Antiracism In Medicine Momentum In 2021 | Several hundred doctors, nurses and medical professionals come together to protest against police ... [+] brutality and the death of George Floyd at Barnes-Jewish Hospital on June 5, 2020 in St Louis, Missouri. Getty Images |
| Nov 18, 2020 | The American Medical Association officially recognised racism as a public-health threat, saying it creates and entrenches health inequality | Bryce Hill stands in line to vote while wearing his ‘Black Lives Matter’ mask at the Durham County Library on the first day of early voting in Durham, North Carolina on October 15, 2020. Cornell Watson/Getty/Washington Post
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| Nov 9, 2020 | Health experts want to prioritize people of color for a Covid-19 vaccine. But how should it be done? | As the U.S. edges closer to approving a vaccine for Covid-19, a difficult decision is emerging as a central issue: Should people in hard-hit communities of color receive priority access to it, and if so, how should that be done?
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| Feb 4, 2020 | Warning: Climate Change Will Bring Major New Health Risks For Kids | 20 1
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| Dismantling structural racism is essential for the health of Black communities | Structural racism is a driver of health inequities that has left Black communities in America dealing with an inordinate share of suffering and poor health outcomes.
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