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Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: RFK Jr.’s chronic disease agency would eliminate or reduce funding for some prevention programs

Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: Dismantling CDC’s chronic disease center ‘looks pretty devastating’ to public health experts

First Opinion Ruth R. Faden

RFK Jr.’s stance on Covid vaccines for pregnant women is profoundly unethical

Health Eric Boodman

STAT Plus: ‘The safety net of the safety net’: Why education and transportation cuts are also public health cuts

D.C. Diagnosis John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: RFK Jr.’s latest moves on vaccines

D.C. Diagnosis John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: What’s already been lost from CDC layoffs

Health Helen Branswell

RFK Jr. ends Covid vaccine recommendations for healthy children, pregnant people

Exclusive Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Reeling from Trump contract cuts, the National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’

Health Eric Boodman

STAT Plus: In its flagship journal, the CDC keeps publishing papers after firing scientists who made the research possible

First Opinion Larry Bucshon

I’m a Republican former congressman and doctor. A placebo-controlled vaccine trial mandate is dangerous

Health Helen Branswell and Daniel Payne

Blunt Rochester presses RFK Jr. on CDC acting director

Health Helen Branswell

Does the CDC have an acting director?

Health Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: HHS to stop recommending routine Covid shots for children, pregnant people, RFK Jr. ally says

Health Lev Facher

Drug overdose deaths fell sharply in 2024, as fentanyl cases dropped but meth spiked

D.C. Diagnosis John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Trump wants to import foreign drug prices. Medicaid cuts unveiled

Health Eric Boodman

STAT Plus: Amid the Milwaukee lead crisis, a laid-off CDC scientist volunteered his expertise. It wasn’t so simple

Health Daniel Payne

STAT Plus: Trump proposes billions in cuts to federal health agencies from NIH to CDC

Health Mike Stobbe — Associated Press

CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years

The Readout LOUD Adam Feuerstein, Allison DeAngelis, and Elaine Chen

Assessing the impact of Trump’s first 100 days on science and health policy

Health Helen Branswell

STAT Plus: 8 possible indicators of how RFK Jr.’s HHS will handle vaccine policy

Politics Usha Lee McFarling

Day by day, how Trump is roiling science and health

Politics Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: Leaked budget document outlines how Kennedy may cut up HHS to build new AHA

Health Helen Branswell

Vaccine advisory panel recommends expanded RSV use, and two new vaccines

Health Associated Press

Health secretary RFK Jr. says U.S. autism cases are climbing at an ‘alarming rate’

First Opinion Meghan F. Davis, Kirsten Koehler, Judy Bass, Julie Sorensen, and Gurumurthy Ramachandran

The CDC’s critical occupational safety institute has been virtually wiped out

Health Jason Mast

Vaccine advisory panel, a frequent target of Kennedy, meets with little drama 

Health Daniel Payne

RFK Jr. plans changes to vaccine side effect reporting system

Health Sarah Todd

Why CDC cuts are being called ‘the greatest gift to tobacco industry in the last half-century’

Health Helen Branswell

Closure of CDC hepatitis lab imperils U.S. outbreak response, prevention