Recent weeks have brought good news about vaccines, with studies indicating that flu vaccination reduces heart disease, shingles vaccines can prevent or slow dementia, and a single human papillomavirus shot protects a girl from cervical cancer for the rest of her life. But in the upside-down world of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines are on the ropes.
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BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. — Near the back corner of the local library’s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free measles vaccines to adults and children. Spartanburg County, in South Carolina’s Upstate region, has been fighting a measles outbreak since early October…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has altered its webpage on vaccine safety and autism to reflect the false anti-vaccine talking points peddled by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The new language contradicts decades of evidence-based research that has found zero link between childhood vaccinations and autism.
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As the nationwide outbreak of infant botulism continues to grow, and new test results show botulism bacteria in some samples of ByHeart infant formula, the source of the potentially deadly contamination remains unknown. ByHeart Inc., in an announcement on its website Wednesday night, said that testing the company commissioned has identified Clostridium botulinum, the bacteria that cause…
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Decades of progress in HIV treatment and prevention in the United States is being derailed by the Trump administration, public health experts say — and without reversing course, the damage will be devastating. Threats to key federal programs are unfolding just as science has significantly advanced how easily patients can treat and manage HIV — leaving experts deeply frustrated.
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This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Employees at the National Institutes of Health learned in an email on Friday, in the midst of a hiring freeze, that their prestigious environmental health sciences research center has a new director.
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