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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. And that continues to be what our mission is.

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KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn’t

Physician's Weekly

After explicitly promising senators during his confirmation hearing that he would not interfere in scientific policy over which Americans should receive which vaccines, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy then appointed new members, including vaccine skeptics, prompting alarm from the broader medical community.

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STATEMENT RELEASE: FDA Task Force Statement on President Trump’s First 100 Days in Office

Doctors for America

Meaningful Clinical Experience: We were pleased to see President Trump appoint an individual with essential clinical and research experience to serve as the next FDA Commissioner. Both Secretary Kennedy and Commissioner Makary have proposed strategies to mitigate the “revolving door” between the government and the industries they regulate.

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‘I Am Going Through Hell’: Job Loss, Mental Health, and the Fate of Federal Workers

Physicians News Digest

At the urging of her therapist, she made an appointment with a psychiatrist in March after she felt she’d “hit the bottom,” she said. “I Researchers who study job loss say these mass layoffs not only are disrupting the lives of tens of thousands of federal workers but also will reverberate out to their spouses, children, and communities.