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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

has long disparaged certain vaccines, calling them unsafe and saying that the government officials who regulate them are compromised and corrupt. On June 9, Kennedy fired a panel of scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and later replaced them with some who have been skeptical of vaccines. Kennedy Jr.,

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Can you tell me about that?

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

GeriPal

Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Doctors want to know whether the patient has died. And one of the principal driving factors behind doctors wanting to know whether the patient has died, I think we need to acknowledge, is harvesting organs for transplant. And I think maybe we could list them all.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.