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Q&A: Experts Urge Pediatric Advocacy Amid Worsening Climate Hazards

Physician's Weekly

As climate change increases in certain pediatric illnesses like asthma, pediatricians have a role in caring for children, especially in vulnerable communities. Globally, flooding is the most common type of extreme weather event (EWE) and >500 million children reside in flood zones worldwide. Shah, DO, and Maya I.

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The MAHA Assessment’s Implications: Drugs (Part One)

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The Strategy must address appropriately restructuring the Federal Governments response to the childhood chronic disease crisis, including by ending Federal practices that exacerbate the health crisis or unsuccessfully attempt to address it, and by adding powerful new solutions that will end childhood chronic disease.

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

Physician's Weekly

system for monitoring the rare ill effects of vaccines. At the time they were getting out of the vaccine business, finding it less risky and more profitable to produce drugs for chronic diseases. ” She said HHS was “building surveillance systems that will accurately measure vaccine risks as well as benefits.”