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

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Ordinarily, a public health initiative of such magnitude would have been governed by a transparent multi-step process featuring public meetings and drawing on external scientific expertise. In other words, as you read this, the Assessments findings and recommendations are getting baked into federal government policy, for better or worse.

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

Physician's Weekly

Within an hour of receiving a covid vaccination in November 2020, Utah preschool teacher Brianne Dressen felt pins and needles through her arms and legs. In the medical odyssey that followed, she suffered double vision, chronic nausea, brain fog, and profound weakness. system for monitoring the rare ill effects of vaccines.

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Evidence v. Belief: What a Kennedy Appointment Could Mean to FDA and Public Health

FDA Law

Rates of chronic disease are high, as is obesity. Though he did not mention it, there is also a Medical Device User Fee Act (MDUFA), which accounted for approximately 44% of the budget for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) in FY2023. Kennedy’s tag line is that he and Trump will “Make America Healthy Again.”

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Can food policy changes make America healthy again?

Common Sense Family Doctor

s conspiracy-fueled positions on childhood vaccines and fluoridated drinking water make him unqualified to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). claims are worse than the diseases. government has always had competing interests in food policy. Kennedy, Jr.'s Has he ever seen an iron lung up close?

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Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

Physicians News Digest

The Trump administration has canceled hundreds of grants supporting research on topics such as vaccination; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and the health of LGBTQ+ populations. Others followed the Senate confirmation of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thank you for public service.