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In today’s issue: The winners and losers in the newly released dietary guidelines. … What was left on the cutting room floor. … A Washington Post report about how federal vaccine experts were “blindsided” by the updated childhood vaccine schedule.
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NCIRD's Senior Leadership Didn't See Revised Vaccine Schedule, CDC Scientist Says
"Nobody in senior leadership at NCIRD saw the revised vaccine schedule, nor the supporting document until the administration released them on January 5th," the official said. (While the official does not work at the NCIRD,
Stripped of partisan politics and overheated rhetoric, what’s actually happening at the CDC is something far more modest — and far healthier.
California and other Western states reject CDC’s scaled-back vaccine guidance, pledging to follow full immunization schedule for kids.
Susan Monarez, the longtime government scientist recently confirmed as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has been let go from her position after less than a month in the role.
Governor Healey criticizes the CDC's changes to the vaccine schedule and reinforces Massachusetts' commitment to ensuring vaccine access.
Let's turn to a physician who previously served as the CDC's chief medical officer. Dr. Debra Houry worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than a decade. She resigned in August, along with some other colleagues in protest of ...
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An HIV expert at the CDC was asked to scrub data on trans people. He quit instead.
Weiser, a 14-year CDC veteran who ran the agency’s Medical Monitoring Project, a surveillance system that’s the sole source of nationally representative data on people with HIV, had been suffering along with everyone else at the health agency due to Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts.
One hundred days ago, near the end of August, I left my position as chief medical officer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) alongside two colleagues. We walked out because we could no longer stay silent as scientific integrity was ...
FILE - This 1981 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows hepatitis B virus particles, indicated in orange. (Dr. Erskine Palmer/CDC via AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has ...
The CDC's new vaccine schedule reduces recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, impacting protection against diseases like hepatitis and meningitis.