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#HHS

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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly urged people to get the measles vaccine in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday.

'We encourage people to get the measles vaccine,' Kennedy told the network’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook."

edition.cnn.com/2025/04/08/hea

CNN · RFK Jr. publicly urges people to get the measles vaccineBy Neha Mukherjee
#PublicHealth#measles#vaccines
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

What #NIH #Layoffs Mean for #Cancer Patients
In the rush of headlines about budgets and restructuring, it’s easy to miss what’s really at stake. But working in cancer innovation and advocacy: when we delay #science, we delay survival. When we dismantle #research infrastructure, people #die waiting. Thousands at #NIH and #HHS were laid off. These were the people running #clinicaltrials, developing new treatment strategies, and pushing promising therapies toward approval.
scilight.substack.com/p/what-n

SciLight · What NIH Layoffs Mean for Cancer PatientsBy Catharine Young
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. first said Sunday that the CDC would be redeploying to Texas at its governor's request, after another unvaccinated child died in the measles outbreak. An 8-year-old girl was the second fatality there this year."

cbsnews.com/news/cdc-texas-mea

www.cbsnews.comCDC redeploys to Texas measles outbreak after layoffs, as RFK Jr. calls vaccine "most effective way" to stop spreadThe redeployment comes after another unvaccinated child died in the measles outbreak in Texas.
#PublicHealth#HHS#CDC
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"April 1 was the first day of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It's also the day the Department of Health And Human Services fired the teams that work on sexual violence prevention.

The layoffs were part of a round of dramatic cuts to the federal health agencies, amid the Trump administration and Elon Musk's efforts to shrink the federal workforce."

npr.org/2025/04/08/nx-s1-53495

#healthcare#HHS#CDC
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"The US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it is reconvening the Community Preventative Services Task Force, an independent panel of public health and prevention experts, 'to study and make a new recommendation on fluoride.'"

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edition.cnn.com/2025/04/07/hea

CNN · HHS, EPA to study fluoride in drinking water as RFK Jr. says he’ll tell CDC to stop recommending itBy Jen Christensen
#PublicHealth#environment#fluoride
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petersuber

Update. "Marks Says He Was Forced Out of #FDA for Trying to Protect #Vaccine Safety #Data"
medpagetoday.com/publichealthp

"Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation's top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant #HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database, fearing that the information might be manipulated or even deleted."

www.medpagetoday.comMarks Says He Was Forced Out of FDA for Trying to Protect Vaccine Safety DataTop vaccine regulator denied RFK Jr. full access to and editing of safety database
#Censorship#DefendResearch#Medicine
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Brittany Trang

Why I called Bob Herman a "master bluster-buster" a few weeks ago:

He doesn't mince words in reminding us where the money the government gives insurance companies comes from: Our pockets.

"Health insurers that sell Medicare Advantage plans are going to get billions more in taxpayer money next year."

via @STAT
statnews.com/2025/04/07/medica

STAT · Trump gives major lift to 2026 Medicare Advantage paymentsInsurance companies will get billions of dollars more from the federal government in 2026.
#cms#hhs#ma
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Helen Branswell

In a bid to rid #HHS of many of its previous leaders, the administration has reassigned a number of senior personnel to the Indian Health Service. Not surprisingly, Native American leaders don't appreciate #IHS being used a tool of retribution. nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/poli

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has spoken often of his and his family’s longstanding commitment to Native Americans.
The New York Times · Kennedy’s Plan to Send Health Officials to ‘Indian Country’ Angers Native LeadersBy Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The Trump administration has begun its purge at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by dismissing 10,000 employees, with agency Freedom of Information Act offices being among the casualties.

This comes after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a FOIA requester himself, promised “radical transparency” at the agency.

The entire FOIA office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was placed on administrative leave, and emails sent to CDC’s FOIA office received the response, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” Most FOIA staff at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health were also let go.

Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold noted that CDC’s FOIA website was briefly taken entirely offline, but was restored after public outcry.

It’s important to note that even if CDC or other agency FOIA office websites are taken offline, requesters can visit FOIA.gov to find contact information for agencies and continue to submit requests. Agencies are still obligated to respond to requests even if their entire FOIA office has been sacked."

freedom.press/the-classifieds/

Freedom of the PressRFK Jr. promises radical transparency, then closes FOIA shopsPlus: Which FOIA offices might be closed next
#USA#Trump#FOIA
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Arthur Zork 👾 (They/Them)

Instead of Making America Healthy Again #Trump & #RFKJr are crippling #HHS services, some statutorily required by Congress, with mass layoffs shutting down entire departments that were keeping Americans safe without an operational restructured replacement. For example, any delays in food & drug recalls while they gut the agency risk American lives.

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