Organizing in the South shows everyday people must step in when a society lurches off its rails.
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Pissed-Off Doctors Aren’t Enough to Combat Trump’s Attacks on Public Health Read Post »
The bipartisan group of surgeons general included Democratic and Republican appointees dating back to the early 1990s.
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6 Former Surgeons General Say RFK Jr. Is Endangering the Health of the Nation Read Post »
Last month, HHS warned dozens of states to drop lessons on transgender health or face millions in funding cuts.
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16 States Sue HHS After It Threatens to Cut Funds Over Trans Inclusion in Sex Ed Read Post »
Microplastics are, quite literally, everywhere—in rivers and lakes, clouds and soil, the depths of the ocean, the heights of Mount Everest. They have shown up in meat, seafood, fruits and vegetables, salt, sugar, and seemingly every corporeal realm scientists have checked, including our lungs, saliva, feces, blood, testicles, and breast milk. Earlier this year, a […]
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RFK Jr. Promised to Take On Plastic. Now He’s Part of an Administration Embracing It. Read Post »
A few days before the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, the White House released a “Myth vs. Fact” document to counter criticism of the inclusion of work requirements for Medicaid eligibility. The proposed new rules need not cause worry among Americans, the document implied, because only “able-bodied adults” would have to […]
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The Deceptive Phrase Behind Trump’s Medicaid Purge Read Post »
Twenty-five years ago today, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone for abortions. Now, the drug is more under threat than ever as anti-abortion Republicans seek to revoke FDA approval of the drug in a bid to further curtail abortion access nationwide. The first of two drugs used in the standard abortion […]
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On Its 25th Birthday, Mifepristone Is More Under Attack Than Ever Read Post »
As a trans journalist, I see corporate media outlets as inconsistent in their treatment of right-wing disinformation.
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Anti-Trans Policy Deserves Same Scrutiny as Trump’s Tylenol Disinformation Read Post »
On Friday morning, a group of about 20 anti-vaccine activists gathered across the street from the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in support of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and promoted by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine advocacy group he led before he entered politics. The […]
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On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much to the chagrin of many autistic adults, who were completely excluded from the process. The two, alongside administration officials including Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator […]
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Disgust, Horror, and “Elimination”: Trump and RFK Jr.’s Eugenicist Autism Conference Read Post »
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
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FDA’s Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook Read Post »
In a long-awaited and much-dreaded announcement on Monday evening, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed today that the government has uncovered two potential explanations for autism. In a formal White House announcement they asserted that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and folate deficiency in pregnant people […]
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The Bonkers Wellness Myths That Fueled Trump’s Autism Announcement Read Post »
Top retail pharmacy chains are still discouraging and barring some people from booking appointments online.
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COVID Vaccines Are Hard to Get Even in States That Expanded Access Read Post »
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