From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, It’s not yet clear how the federal government shutdown will end, but Democrats are continuing to draw attention to the issue they are promoting — the coming expiration of additional subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance plans. Some Republicans are now going public with their worries about the huge cost increases many of their constituents face.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, As long predicted, much of the federal government shut down on Oct. 1, after Congress failed to agree on spending bills that keep most programs running. Republicans need at least a handful of Democratic votes to pass spending bills in the Senate.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, Fired less than a month after being confirmed as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez appeared at a dramatic Senate hearing alongside another ousted CDC official and directly contradicted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s earlier testimony about why she was fired.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, Just days after his firing of the brand-new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a defiant Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. secretary of health and human services, defended that action and others before a sometimes skeptical Senate Finance Committee.
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has recently been at the center of big changes. For this week’s Friday Five, we’re breaking down five key things you need to know about ACIP—its history, its role in shaping vaccine policy, and what recent developments could mean for families, healthcare providers, and public health.
The American Medical Association and 79 leading medical societies reaffirm their support for vaccination as the best way to protect against the flu, COVID-19, and RSV and their potentially serious complications.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, 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 Jr. this week fired every member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices…
This initiative represents a decisive shift toward transparency, effectiveness, and comprehensive preparedness, funding the NIH’s in-house development of universal influenza and coronavirus vaccines, including candidates BPL-1357 and BPL-24910.
By Peter Marks MD PhD & Daniel Jernigan MD MPH – Monitoring vaccine safety is an important responsibility shared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. And there’s no part of America’s vaccine safety system more talked about than the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, awarded more than $1.4 billion for Project NextGen to support the development of a new generation of tools and technologies to protect against COVID-19 for years to come.
By Lauren Sausser – By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department in Oklahoma City, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against covid-19 slipping after an initially robust response.
By Arthur Allen – No one studying polio knew more than Albert Sabin, the Polish-American scientist whose vaccine against the crippling disease has been used worldwide since 1959. Sabin’s oral vaccine provides lifelong immunity. It has one drawback, which Sabin, who died in 1993, fiercely disputed:
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