FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Richardson — On September 24, 2021, the owner of a pharmacy in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty to participating in a felony conspiracy to convert government property and to commit health care fraud in connection with the illegal vaccination of minors between the ages of 7 to 11 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

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NPR Health

JUNE 2, 2025

Some healthy pregnant women, parents of healthy kids and younger healthy adults are worried they won't be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 because of the recent changes in access by the federal government.

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NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 22, 2023

Moderna is quadrupling the price of its COVID-19 vaccine when the U.S. government is no longer the exclusive buyer. Senators grilled the company's CEO on the hike and access for the uninsured.

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NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 2, 2023

Moderna said people without insurance will be able to get its COVID vaccine at no cost after the U.S. government bows out. But patients will have to use the company's cumbersome assistance program.

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NPR Health

APRIL 18, 2025

Meanwhile, basic information about COVID testing and vaccines has disappeared. The new page emphatically promotes a theory that many scientists question. Image credit: Whitehouse.gov/Screenshot by NPR)

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

This region governs essential behaviors like the circadian clock, sleep, energy balance , and feeding. Po-Ting Yeh, the studys first author, explains the challenge: "It is difficult to study the basic physiological functions controlled by the hypothalamus, which lies deep inside the brain.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

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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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 15, 2020

He is co-Director of the Emory CFAR and co-PI of the Emory-CDC HIV Clinical Trails Unit and the Emory Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit. He was also a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

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NPR Health

MAY 30, 2025

announced this week that the federal government is removing the recommendation that kids and pregnant women get routine COVID-19 vaccines. But CDC advice is more nuanced. Image credit: kamon_saejueng/iStockphoto)

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NPR Health

MARCH 11, 2025

The Health Secretary's assertion inaccurately characterizes the 2009 government report he cites, according to an NPR review and interviews with former committee members. Image credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America)

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NPR Health

JANUARY 18, 2025

The public health risk remains low, but bird flu variants have proven to be unpredictable, which is why the virus is a top priority for the federal government. Image credit: Plexi Images)

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Kirschenbaum — Last Friday, May 26, CMS published in the Federal Register an assortment of proposals to change the regulations governing the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. Vaccine”: Because vaccines are excluded from the MDRP, CMS proposes to define them solely for purposes of the MDRP.

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NPR Health

MAY 28, 2025

The federal government has removed COVID-19 vaccines from the list of shots recommended for healthy pregnant women and children. The change is raising concerns among some independent experts.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 31, 2021

The Global COVID-19 Response Must Be Anti-Racist An anti-racist COVID-19 response means that quality care, quality vaccines, and quality public health information must be provieded to all. From social distancing to contact tracing to vaccin distribution, every step should be considered through an anti-raicst framework.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

government has ended funding for some 5,800 global health programs, cutting off critical support for projects that provide vaccines, life-saving medications and emergency health care to millions of people globally.

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Evergreen Family Medicine

MARCH 3, 2025

Paul Offit, a vaccinologist, spoke of his conversation with Dr Fauci regarding whether the US government should target high-risk groups with COVID boosters rather than the entire population. So, to ensure the high-risk groups get vaccinated, it was necessary to recommend it for everybody.Dr.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

THURSDAY, June 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A longtime vaccine critic hired by Health Secretary Robert F. is reviewing safety data in an effort to revisit debunked claims that vaccines may cause autism. Geier and his late father, geneticist Mark Geier, spent decades promoting the idea that vaccines are linked to autism.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 14, 2022

Vaccines: Starting in 2023, Medicare Part D will cover all adult vaccines approved by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (“ACIP”) without any deductible or coinsurance. The same will be required under state Medicaid and CHIP programs by October 1, 2023.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 7, 2025

The company is working with governments and health groups in the U.K. But Gilead says the shot should help expand the overall number of people using PrEP in both the U.S. and abroad. Were thinking globally about the public health impact we can have," Mercier said. © 2025 HealthDay.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill would preclude the government from charging interest on their loans during when they are unable to afford payments on the principal. Medicare Coverage of Recommended Vaccines – There is a split in coverage on vaccines in the Medicare program. At the same time, the country is not where it needs to be with uptake.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? I say with sarcasm, but that the government decided to subsidize home ownership and simultaneously designed a system where Black folks couldn’t be homeowners. Maybe vaccines, maybe. HPV vaccine.

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Tiny Physician

OCTOBER 17, 2021

On the brighter side, daily case count drastically decreased and vaccination drive is happening at top speed. Almost 1 billion doses of vaccine have been administered so far and the situation is currently under control. If the government wishes to give sugar pills to everyone, let them give candies but not homeopathic pills.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. Asian hate is, again, another umbrella term for racism and discrimination.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As a measles outbreak in West Texas approaches 100 cases and the national percentage of kindergarten-age children who have received measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has fallen below 93% , vaccine conspiracy theory amplifier Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has taken the reins as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

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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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

News stories have focused on his beliefs about water fluoridation, unpasteurized ("raw") milk, and vaccine safety. may want to take fluoride out of the water, ramp up consumption of raw milk, and make vaccines optional for school entry, but fortunately, HHS doesn't have direct jurisdiction over any of these issues. Kennedy, Jr.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This bill, which addresses numerous areas of the economy, public health, and government regulation, includes Subtitle E, Drug Pricing. The Part B rebate would exclude vaccines as well. Subtitle E is a slightly modified version of H.R. 3, the Elijah E.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

Increased fear of immigration enforcement deters individuals from seeking preventive services, vaccinations, or life-saving treatments, undermining public health and violating the ethical duty of medical professionals to care for all in need.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Referencing an interview with Kennedy from 2023, the Post says that his views on health “were a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines.” He has equated vaccination to the Holocaust and argued that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and the Chinese.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 20, 2025

He wants Americans to eat fewer ultra-processed foods ; to decline long-established childhood vaccines against diseases like the measles, which we never see anymore ; and to drink public water supplies without fluoride, apparently as a boon to the dental profession. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 22, 2025

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). government has always had competing interests in food policy. Kennedy, Jr.'s Now that the newly inaugurated President has withdrawn the U.S. But I digress.

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Doctors for America

APRIL 29, 2025

Both Secretary Kennedy and Commissioner Makary have proposed strategies to mitigate the “revolving door” between the government and the industries they regulate. The agency has also delayed vaccine advisory panels.

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Physicians News Digest

MARCH 31, 2025

Elon Musk — who is the world’s richest person and whose Department of Government Efficiency, created by a Trump executive order, is infiltrating federal agencies and spearheading mass firings — has claimed without evidence that “there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead” and others “who are not real people.”

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

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.

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