Public Health

Health Agencies

• Federal agencies blame Democrats for looming shutdown in apparent Hatch Act violation, The Guardian
• ‘Distracting the public’: group of health professionals call for RFK Jr to be removed, The Guardian
• Patients with ultra-rare diseases worry FDA approach will leave them without treatment, The Guardian
• Who is in charge at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? The Guardian
• ‘I feel betrayed’: federal health workers fired by Trump tell of ‘nightmare,’ The Guardian
• Musk’s takeover of US health agencies raises pandemic threat, experts warn, The Guardian

• Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders threaten Americans’ health, experts say, The Guardian
• Trump pick for US health agency proposed ‘herd immunity’ during Covid, The Guardian

Trump Administration

• How Trump’s executive order could criminalize homelessness: ‘Terrifying,’ The Guardian

Vaccines & Misinformation

• US medical groups fill gap with own vaccine guides amid ‘information crisis,’ The Guardian
• ‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines, The Guardian
• Vaccine Shortages. Viral Outbreaks. Widespread Illness. More Death. The New Republic
• US experts fear all vaccines at risk as Trump officials target mRNA jabs, The Guardian
• What RFK Jr’s War on Vaccines Could Look Like, The New Republic
• Trump Unleashing RFK Jr. on Public Health Would Be a Disaster, The New Republic
• ‘Verified’ anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content, The Guardian
• ‘The only logical choice’: anti-vaxxers who changed their minds on Covid vaccines, The Guardian
• AmazonSmile donated more than $40,000 to anti-vaccine groups in 2020, The Guardian
• Don’t Call It a Pandemic of the Stupid, The New Republic

Measles

• Prominent US anti-vaxxer says he caught measles and traveled back home, The Guardian
• More US states report measles cases amid vaccine misinformation, The Guardian
• Measles Is Spreading, and RFK Jr. Is Praising Quacks, The New Republic
• Texas cities run short of MMR vaccine as measles outbreak drives demand, The Guardian
• How to Decode RFK Jr.’s Dog Whistle Messages on the Measles Vaccine, The New Republic
• RFK Jr.’s Policies Could Spread Measles Far Beyond Texas, The New Republic

Infectious Disease

• Pandemic preparedness ‘dramatically eroding’ under Trump, experts say, The Guardian
• Tuberculosis could end if there’s more US public health funding, experts say, The Guardian
• Wastewater sampling could be key to early warning of new disease outbreaks, The Guardian
• Kansas reckons with large tuberculosis outbreak as health officials hamstrung, The Guardian
• How Bad Could Trump’s Assault on Public Health Get?, The New Republic
• What to Expect From Trump’s Next Term: More E. Coli and Fewer Vaccines, The New Republic

Autism

• ‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database, The Guardian
• ‘Laughable, if it weren’t so dangerous’: your responses to RFK Jr’s autism stance, The Guardian
• Autistic people and experts voice alarm at RFK’s ‘terrible’ approach to condition, The Guardian

Health Insurance

• My daughter could have died. I blame US insurance companies, The Guardian

Medications

• Weight-loss drugs could be key reason why US obesity rates falling, experts say, The Guardian

Substance Use

• OxyContin victims fight for their share in Purdue bankruptcy case, The Guardian
• US could loosen some restrictions on prescribing opioids, The Guardian
• ‘It’s devastating’: How fentanyl is unfolding as one of America’s greatest tragedies, The Guardian; en español al DiarioAR
• ‘It’s a different beast’: US fentanyl deaths will rise, warns Narcan developer, The Guardian
• Price for drug that reverses opioid overdoses soars amid record deaths, The Guardian; interviewed about this story on The Takeaway