Under the leadership of secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services has cut billions of dollars needed to modernize state programs for childhood immunization.
The nationβs health secretary addressed agency employees, asking them to shed any corporate influence. But he did not address the mass layoffs that have gutted oversight of tobacco and vapes, food safety and drug reviews.
From the βchairsβ to the hallway medicine, the showβs depiction of an emergency medicine system that is beyond capacity rings true for medical experts.
He took a down-to-earth approach to sexually transmitted infections, a subject no one wanted to discuss, arriving at novel methods of treatment and prevention.
Dr. Holmes in 1988. He called the lack of funding for studying sexually transmitted diseases a βconspiracy of silenceβ that was βignorant,β βappallingβ and βa disgrace.β
Under the leadership of secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services has cut billions of dollars needed to modernize state programs for childhood immunization.
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
Mr. Kennedy appears to have most Republicans behind him as he seeks the job of health secretary, though he couldnβt escape his past stances on vaccines and abortion.
In recent months, bird flu has started raising red flags among scientists and public health officials. Apoorva Mandavilli, a New York Times reporter who covers infectious diseases, explains why we need to start taking bird flu seriously.
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