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Writing for SBM these days is a bit like being in one of those cash grab machines, though instead of money flying over the place, it’s bees and wasps. Every week brings a fresh round of horrors that ...
The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding threats to Americans’ health, is without a clear leader.
In recent weeks, the federal government issued rapidly changing — and in some cases contradictory — guidance about who should ...
Wisconsin health officials say RFK Jr.'s recent pullback of COVID-19 vaccine advice for kids and pregnant women isn’t based ...
U.S. public health authorities have skirted normal procedures and announced two major policy changes that will likely reduce ...
More than 1,100 measles cases have been reported in the United States this year, and the highly contagious virus has put ...
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services continues to recommend the current COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy and for every person 6 months and older to protect from serious COVID-19 illness and to ...
A top official on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which oversees updates to vaccine recommendations, has resigned, according to a CBS News report. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, MD ...
In reversing the Biden-era guidance, the Trump administration has lifted EMTALA measures that allowed doctors to perform abortions when necessary, irrespective of the legality of the procedure in the ...
The resignation follows an order by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to change the agency's guidance ...
The CDC now says kids six months and older with no underlying health conditions "may receive" Covid-19 vaccines in ...
Recent updates to federal guidance make this an ideal time for long term care facilities to reassess and strengthen their EBP ...