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Public health professor warns the Trump’s ‘eugenics’ policy echoes Nazism

Public health professor warns the Trump’s ‘eugenics’ policy echoes Nazism

The Daily Beast reports: An eminent ER doctor and health policy expert has warned that President Donald Trump’s government shutdown talk about “deserving” patients mirrors a “eugenics” policy adopted by the Nazis. The shutdown is about to enter its fourth week after Congress failed to pass full-year funding. The White House and Speaker Mike Johnson are demanding spending cuts and immigration concessions, while Senate Democrats insist on extending ACA subsidies and undoing the summer healthcare cuts before reopening agencies. Dr….

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Only 1% of people are eating a healthy and sustainable diet, major report finds

Only 1% of people are eating a healthy and sustainable diet, major report finds

BBC Science Focus reports: A major report on the global food system has found that less than 1 per cent of the world is eating a diet that’s good for the planet and human health. But switching to a healthier eating pattern could prevent up to 15 million premature deaths per year, while cutting global greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20 per cent. These are the findings of a report by the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission. The report brings together…

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White House senses political risk on healthcare despite Trump’s shutdown bravado

White House senses political risk on healthcare despite Trump’s shutdown bravado

The Wall Street Journal reports: President Trump has projected unwavering confidence that he is winning the messaging war over the government shutdown. But behind the scenes, his team is increasingly concerned that the issue at the center of the debate will create political vulnerabilities for Republicans. Advisers are worried that the GOP will take the blame for allowing healthcare subsidies to expire, raising costs for millions of Americans ahead of next year’s midterm elections, according to administration officials. Inside the…

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Mediterranean diet may mitigate inherited risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Mediterranean diet may mitigate inherited risk of Alzheimer’s disease

PsyPost reports: A new study has revealed that a person’s genetic makeup can alter how small molecules in their blood, known as metabolites, are linked to their risk of developing dementia. The research, published in Nature Medicine, also suggests that following a Mediterranean diet may be particularly effective at lowering dementia risk for individuals who carry the highest genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition that causes a progressive decline in memory and other cognitive abilities….

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Trump’s most lethal policy: ‘People are dying every day and night’

Trump’s most lethal policy: ‘People are dying every day and night’

Nicholas Kristof writes: The Trump administration has claimed that no one has died because of its cuts to humanitarian aid, and it is now trying to cancel an additional $4.9 billion in aid that Congress already approved. Yet what I find here in desperate villages in southwestern Uganda is that not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but that the death toll is accelerating. Stockpiles of food and medicine are running out here. Village health workers who used…

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The emerging teen-health crisis caused by AI

The emerging teen-health crisis caused by AI

Kaitlyn Tiffany and Matteo Wong write: On Tuesday afternoon, three parents sat in a row before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism. Two of them had each recently lost a child to suicide; the third has a teenage son who, after cutting his arm in front of her and biting her, is undergoing residential treatment. All three blame generative AI for what has happened to their children. They had come to testify on what appears to be an…

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Trump breaks from RFK Jr. on vaccines: ‘Pure and simple, they work’

Trump breaks from RFK Jr. on vaccines: ‘Pure and simple, they work’

Axios reports: President Trump said he’s supportive of vaccines on Friday, breaking with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Why it matters: Kennedy has faced widespread criticism for his new vaccine mandates and staffing shake-up at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Driving the news: Trump was asked Friday during an Oval Office meeting about Kennedy’s vaccine mandate changes, which include limiting which children are eligible for vaccines. “I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people don’t have to be vaccinated,”…

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Trump’s former surgeon general calls for RFK Jr. to be fired

Trump’s former surgeon general calls for RFK Jr. to be fired

CNN reports: Jerome Adams, who served as US surgeon general during President Donald Trump’s first administration, is calling for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be fired as controversy continues to swirl over his handling of vaccine approvals. When asked by CNN’s Victor Blackwell on Saturday if Trump should fire Kennedy, Adams said, “I absolutely believe that he should for the sake of the nation and the sake of his legacy.” Adams’ comments come after a…

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Republican senators’ views of Kennedy are souring

Republican senators’ views of Kennedy are souring

The Hill reports: Republican senators are sending clear signs of disapproval and unhappiness with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., making it plain to President Trump that they want the administration to address the chaos Kennedy has caused by trying to rewrite the nation’s vaccine policies. GOP senators have stopped short of calling on Kennedy to resign and haven’t yet said they regret voting for him in February, but they want him to back off efforts…

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RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study highlighting the risk of cancer caused by alcohol

RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study highlighting the risk of cancer caused by alcohol

Vox reports: Most Americans still don’t know that alcohol can cause cancer — and the alcohol industry is working hard to make sure it stays that way. For the past three years, the industry, aided by its allies in Congress and later the Trump administration, has sought to discredit and eventually bury a major analysis that offers new evidence of the link between drinking alcohol and getting sick and dying from various causes, including cancer. It appears their campaign has…

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Sidelining RFK Jr., states announce plans to coordinate on vaccines

Sidelining RFK Jr., states announce plans to coordinate on vaccines

The New York Times reports: California, Oregon and Washington announced plans on Wednesday to form a “health alliance” that would coordinate vaccine recommendations for the three states. The alliance is intended to provide residents with scientific data about vaccine safety and efficacy, and to issue guidance on vaccines for respiratory illnesses like Covid and the flu, as well as an array of childhood immunizations. The move comes at a time of unparalleled turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and…

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What chaos at the CDC could mean for the rest of the world

What chaos at the CDC could mean for the rest of the world

By Michael Toole, Burnet Institute Ever since Robert F Kennedy (RFK) Jr was appointed United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been under pressure to abandon its traditional evidence-based approach to public health in America and across the world. That pressure came to a head last week with the sacking of recently appointed CDC director Susan Monarez. According to her lawyers, the longtime government scientist, who had been in the…

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RFK Jr says he’ll ‘fix’ a vaccine program — by canceling compensation for people with vaccine injuries

RFK Jr says he’ll ‘fix’ a vaccine program — by canceling compensation for people with vaccine injuries

The Guardian reports: While unrest and new vaccine restrictions have kept US health agencies in headlines, there’s one vaccine program in particular that Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently vowed to “fix”, which experts say could further upend the vaccine industry and prevent people experiencing rare side effects from vaccines from getting financial help. While some changes to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which compensates people who suffer…

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Former CDC scientist warns: RFK Jr. appears to believe in eugenics. ‘Wake up… This is where fascism lives’

Former CDC scientist warns: RFK Jr. appears to believe in eugenics. ‘Wake up… This is where fascism lives’

The Daily Beast reports: A scientist who resigned from the CDC this week is warning that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has shown signs he believes in “eugenics.” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned in protest of the Trump administration’s firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, told MSNBC Saturday morning that America needs to “wake up” to the secretary’s rhetoric. “I really hear the echoes of the word, ‘superior genetics,’” Daskalakis said. “He referred to very high members…

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Trump’s pick to head CDC is a Peter Thiel acolyte

Trump’s pick to head CDC is a Peter Thiel acolyte

The New Republic reports: Donald Trump has tapped Deputy Health Secretary Jim O’Neill, a market fundamentalist Silicon Valley investor and long-time associate of billionaire Peter Thiel, as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control. Taking the place of Susan Monarez, whose firing has raised alarm over the dangerous incompetence of the health department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., O’Neill will bring to the role no medical or scientific background. But he does have a history of feverish advocacy…

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Resignation letters from CDC leaders as hundreds of Americans are still dying from Covid

Resignation letters from CDC leaders as hundreds of Americans are still dying from Covid

In late January, 2021, almost 24,000 Americans died from Covid in a single week. Less than five years later, the pandemic somehow appears to be part of the distant past. Over the last 28 days, 22 people have been killed in mass shootings across America. During the same period, there have been 672 deaths from Covid — almost three quarters of the number of Covid deaths recorded globally. For the 2024–2025 season, the CDC reported that less than 25% of…

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