2026 is already the deadliest year for measles in the United States since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000. Four people died over the last month in Pennsylvania amid an ongoing outbreak in the state, which had not seen a measles-related death in at least 35 years. All four victims, including two infants, were unvaccinated (children do not receive their first dose of the measles vaccine…
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On Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee passed a resolution, along partisan lines, to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he refused to testify at a hearing last week about the origins of the COVID-19 virus, citing his Fifth Amendment protections. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was a key figure during the…
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HAMILTON, Mont. — The Trump administration has stepped up arrests and public condemnation of federal scientists studying viruses as the world faces one of its worst Ebola epidemics. In June, Vincent Munster, an infectious disease researcher at the National Institutes of Health, was charged with bringing biological specimens into the U.S. without proper documents. Weeks later, Sen.
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Soon after Medicare, Medicaid, and the Hart-Celler Act, also known as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, became law, the federal government began to label certain geographic areas as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), which designated an inadequate number of physicians in relation to the population. HPSAs were generally populated with people who were low-income, elderly…
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has blocked the release of multiple studies demonstrating the safety of vaccinations for coronavirus and shingles, a move that some health experts are saying amounts to censorship. Officials within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have confirmed that the studies were blocked from publication. The three studies in question — which…
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The Trump administration raided the home of and jailed a scientist this week over alleged violations of record-keeping protocols, with FBI Director Kash Patel saying officials will not tolerate such abuses — all while the administration is being sued over a recent policy declaring that Donald Trump is immune from record-keeping law. On Monday, federal law enforcement agents pounded on the…
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