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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

The HHS budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 makes no mention of vaccine safety programs. At the time they were getting out of the vaccine business, finding it less risky and more profitable to produce drugs for chronic diseases. As of June 5, a patient group she leads had provided $1.2 The current U.S. The current U.S.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

Dangerous changes loomed: To compensate for tax cuts for the wealthy, Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill and budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 threaten to curtail Medicaid, which provides health coverage for people with low incomes and disabilities. And policymakers ensured that almost everyone in the U.S.