Parents are navigating mixed messaging about childhood vaccinations from federal and state officials. The impact of the mixed messaging is being seen inside doctors offices like pediatrician David Butler’s office in Fort Myers, Florida. First-time father Brandon Gonsalves, who is also a nurse practitioner, told Butler he’s “not too sure yet” what his plans are…
What changes did the CDC advisory panel vote on? – CBS News Watch CBS News The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee wrapped two days’ worth of meetings that involved votes on a range of recommendations regarding vaccines for COVID-19, measles and more. Dr. Celine Gounder has details. Source link
Washington — A former top National Institutes of Health leader who says she was removed from her position after a dispute with Trump administration officials detailed the internal clashes at the elite medical research agency Monday, and warned of an agenda that poses “a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety.” Dr. Jeanne…
Florida’s top health official said last week that the state will start dismantling school vaccine mandates, something no other state has done in modern U.S. history. On Sunday, in a CNN interview with Jake Tapper, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo confirmed that his department did no data analysis or projections on how the change…
At the end of summer, Congress is often sleepy, and slowly gets back to work. But this past week was an exception. On Capitol Hill, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrived, and the controversial Health and Human Services Secretary sparked a reckoning over public health in America. At a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on…
In the wake of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s firing of top CDC officials and cuts in mRNA vaccine research, Dr. Timothy Johnson (longtime network TV medical editor and founding editor of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter) has a message for a fellow doctor, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, who’d promised…
Florida officials announced that the state will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates, becoming the first in the U.S. to do so. Health experts say such a move raises the risk of deadly disease outbreaks. Students have long been required to receive vaccinations for once-common childhood illnesses like polio and measles. A large…
More than 1,000 current and former Health and Human Services employees penned an open letter Wednesday calling for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to either resign or be fired. The letter — whose signatories were not publicly named — was released at a tense time for the health agency. Last week, Centers for Disease…
Those sniffles likely aren’t a summer cold; COVID-19 is everywhere right now. And things are expected to get worse before they get better. Some experts predict virus rates will continue to rise as we ride out this summer infection surge. Jay Weiland, an infectious disease modeler, shared on social media that he predicts the summer…
This screenshot shows the official website of Ab&B Bio-Tech Co. Chinese mainland vaccine manufacturer Ab&B Bio-Tech saw its shares skyrocket on its first day of trading in Hong Kong, as the company capitalized on the strong demand from retail investors and a booming healthcare sector. Shares of the Jiangsu province-based firm, which specializes in…