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When I was a clear young girl of 25, my friends and I went through the streets of Cincinnati, shouted: “Crunch, crunch, I don’t want lunch. All I want is potato chips.” Slim Gaillard with The song of the centuryBecause of my settlement. Happy National Potato Chip Day.
Anyway, Dave Weldon discovered that his nomination for CDC Head was drawn for hours for his hearing. Cheeky. Someone gives that man potato chips.
Weldon fell for CDC
The Trump government withdrew the appointment of Dave Weldon as a choice to lead the centers for disease control and prevention before it was planned for a crucial hearing. The long track record of the doctor to criticize vaccines torpedoed his chances of winning confirmation. The withdrawal meant a rare setback for a nominated Trump, and for the wider Make America Remory Roter Movement.
Weldon, a doctor, has promoted anti-vaccine theories for decades, according to a statutes of his congress record. He was convinced that vaccines caused autism, although researchers have since invalidated that theory. The long public statement by Weldon spends a considerable part that Andrew Wakefield defends, the British researcher who made the theory popular.
Read the story of my colleagues for more explanation behind the withdrawal of the eleventh hour and the senators behind the opposition.
And in another Health Agency News …
While Weldon was withdrawn, the other nominations of the day continued as expected. The Senate Health Committee voted on Thursday to endorse Marty Makary as Commissioner for Food and Drug Administration and Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health.
Keep your eyes open for the reporting of Stat about today’s hearing, with former surgeon Mehmet Oz, who are fighting to lead centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. How is Dr. Oz, the former television star during the day, in line for a $ 1.5 trillion desk in Leiden? Take a look at the brilliant profile of my colleague Tara Bannow of the man and his brand ‘Wellness Woo’.
If you are planning to look with us today, pay attention to whether senators ask about the stock ownership of OZ. He says that he will reject companies that supervise CMS, such as UnitedHealth and HCA Healthcare. Stay informed.
RFK’s measles claims are wrong
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Was confirmed as America’s Minister of Health and Human Services, neutral observers may have asked themselves: would it be possible for a lawyer who had questioned the safety of children’s vaccinations for two decades to reconsider his views?
It seems that the answer is ‘no’.
In the meantime, the infected count in the measles outbreak of Texas taps higher every day. A 2024 Study in the Lancet Estimated that measles vaccines prevented 93.7 million deaths worldwide between 1974 and 2024. And yet Kennedy wrongly was on Fox News that the measles vaccine can kill people. Researchers say that Just not trueExcept for a small number of people with a compromised immune system that should not receive it.
Read the rest of the scorching opinion of Matthew reborn about Kennedy, Medical Risk and the outbreak of measles.
Why people with disabilities run the risk of AI
The health of many disabled people requires near-constant supervision, and the recent abundance of health technologies has made this scenario possible. But one New report From the Center for Democracy and Technology and the American Association of People with Disabilities shows how health technologies dependent on artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems can be a double -cut sword for people with disabilities.
It is the last investigation into how the identity of a person can influence the care that he receives from the new technologies. Until recently, much of the relevant analysis focuses on race and gender, but more researchers focus their eyes into the 20% of Americans with disabilities. The document offers recommendations for how providers, hospitals and people with disabilities can navigate through AI-driven technologies.
Read more of my Q&A here with the co-authors of the report.
Conflict-free FDA advisory committees are a mistake
The cornerstones of each Food and Drug Administration advisory committee are the clinical experts who serve on that. The other foundation? Commission meetings that are open to the public. Such a transparency is the reason why the meetings are valuable, but secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has called for members of the Advisory Committee for Conflict.
That is a mistake, writes Peter J. Pitts, a former FDA Associate Commissioner who was responsible for the high official of the Agency for Advisory Committees. The agency is forced to explain and defend his scientific thinking in public, for a panel of experts, to ensure that no clinical stone remains undisturbed. Read more of Pitts about why increasing advisory committees under a veil of confidentiality and the removal of experts would be “dangerous” for patient results.
What we read
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They wanted a quick solution for hair loss. Instead, these young men fell ill., Wall Street Journal
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Hospice industry is a postponement as Trump Admin Pauses Oversight Program, Axios
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Programs for the prevention of hospital rifles can be caught in American financing crossfire, KFF Health News
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After years of refusal, Republicans pass to add medical exceptions to the ban on KY -Abortus, Lexington Herald leader