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RFK Jr. Struggles to Navigate Frustrated Supporters and a Demanding Boss
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115172.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- After the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, supporters of his "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) movement cheered at having a champion in the federal government. Now...


Hearing Loss and Heart Failure; Improved TAVR Outcomes
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115190.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...


Video Shows Doctor With Measles Treating Kids. RFK Jr. Later Praised Him.
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115199.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met him and praised him as an "extraordinary...


SCOTUS to Mull Whether Insurers Must Offer Certain Preventive Services for Free
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115201.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case that could affect what kind of preventive care is covered at no charge under Americans' health insurance plans. The case, known as Kennedy v. Braidwood, involves Christian...


Trump Turns COVID Info Website Into a Promotion Page for 'Lab Leak' Theory
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115198.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing, and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak. The covid.gov website shows...


Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.'s NIH Slashed Funding Across States That Backed Trump
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115182.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The NIH's sweeping cuts of grants that fund scientific research are inflicting pain almost universally across the U.S., including in most states that backed President Trump in the 2024 election. A KFF Health News analysis underscores...


American Doc Told to 'Self-Deport'; FDA Ends Food Inspections; New Measles Outbreaks
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115181.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


Leaked Budget Document Confirms Axed CDC Offices
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115174.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A leaked HHS budget document confirms that a number of CDC offices are eliminated in their entirety, as the Trump administration sets out to refocus the agency on infectious diseases. It also proposes to eliminate two CDC journals...


What's at Stake if CDC's Infection Control Practices Committee Is Cut
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115168.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Whether you are placing a central line, managing a Clostridioides difficile case, or keeping a surgical field sterile, you're likely following standards influenced by the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee...


Experts' Vaccine Recommendations Will Go to Ex-Prosecutor Now at CDC
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115163.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A federal panel of medical experts on Wednesday recommended an expansion of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccinations for adults and a new combination shot as another option to protect teens against meningitis. The 15-member...


ACIP Backs Virus-Like Particle Chikungunya Vaccine for Travelers, Lab Workers
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115162.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously recommended that U.S. travelers ages 12 years and older receive the virus-like particle chikungunya vaccine (Vimkunya) when they travel to a country or...


ACIP Endorses RSV Vaccine for At-Risk Adults 50 and Up
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115158.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 14-0, with one abstention, on Wednesday to recommend that high-risk patients ages 50 to 59 be vaccinated for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and also added...


U.S. Measles Cases Likely Underreported, CDC Says
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115155.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The number of cases reported in the ongoing measles outbreak in the southwestern U.S. is likely an undercount, according to the CDC scientist leading the response to the outbreak. "We do believe there's quite a large amount...


ACIP Considers Single-Dose HPV Vaccination
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115151.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- At its meeting on Tuesday, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) considered whether the U.S. should move to single-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination instead of the currently recommended schedule...


CDC Advisors Weigh Switch to Risk-Based COVID Vaccination
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115147.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's vaccine advisors are considering options that would narrow the recommendations for the fall COVID vaccine to only include groups at higher risk for severe illness. The news came at a Tuesday meeting of the Advisory...


WHO Member Nations Agree on Draft 'Pandemic Treaty' to Try to Avoid COVID Mistakes
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115146.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- LONDON -- Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty, and killed millions, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) member countries agreed on a draft "pandemic treaty" that sets guidelines...


RFK Jr. Says the Medical System Has 'Perverse Incentives' for Doctors
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115141.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- HHS is trying to change the "perverse incentives" in the medical system, including the way doctors are paid, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday. "A lot of the negative behavior and self-destructive behavior in...


Translating What Kennedy's Anti-Vax Allies Hear in His Response to Measles Outbreak
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115139.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- When the nation's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., endorsed the measles vaccine this month after an outbreak in Texas claimed the life of a second child, his comments made waves because he has spent 20 years making...


Vaccine Advisors to Meet; Donated Organs Left Unused; Counterfeit Ozempic Warning
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115123.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


Will Memoli Be the Next NIAID Director?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115114.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- During an on-camera interview with CBS News last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that Matthew Memoli, MD -- currently the principal deputy director at NIH -- will be the next director of the National Institute...


Flawed Flu Vaccine Study Sparks Misinformation Storm
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115110.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In a video originally published on Inside Medicine, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust takes aim at a widely circulated Cleveland Clinic preprint on flu vaccine effectiveness -- one that was touted on Fox News as proof...