Showing posts with label CDC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CDC. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

The CDC After Trump's & RFKJr's Friday Afternoon Massacre

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There is a must-read NY Times   op-ed in today's paper : The signers are 9 former CDC directors (permanent or acting).  They served duri...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The CDC: Of Revolving Doors and Dark Clouds and Chopping Blocks, Oh My

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[UPDATE BELOW]  The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, longtime government scientist Dr. Susan Monarez, was confirm...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Texas and Trump: Failing Grades on Abortion and Measles

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A couple of recent articles show the impact of massive public-health failures on the part of both the state of Texas and the federal governm...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

U.S. Measles Cases Reach 33-Year High

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Twenty-five years after measles was eliminated in this country, there have been 1,288 cases this year (as of July 8), according to the CDC ....
Monday, February 03, 2025

I Really Didn't Plan to Post Anything Until My Next Sabbatical, But It's Time to Get Real (Part II)

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The new administration is systematically undoing years and decades of support for the sorts of health- and medicine-related web posts and pu...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Bird Flu: It May Be Worse Than We Suspect

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The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) just published a report on the bird flu with a pretty scary title: "How America Lost Control of the...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

CDC Reports on Intimate-Partner Violence

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The full title of the CDC's report gives an accurate picture of the report's focus on intimate-partner violence "(IPV"):  ...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Health Affairs: "The Impact Of The Election On Health Policy And The Courts"

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The nonpartisan and highly respected journal, Health Affairs , today posted an analysis of some of the more conspicuous (and worrying) chan...
Saturday, March 09, 2024

CDC Updates Guidance on COVID+ Infections

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I noted in an earlier post that the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) was considering a significant change to their recommen...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Chicken Soup for COVID-19?

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Earlier this week, NBC reported that the CDC is considering a substantial change to its isolation guidelines for individuals who are COVID+...