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Flawed Report Aims to Undercut Established Research on Abortion Pill Safety, Plus How a Federal Initiative to Study Autism May Overemphasize Environmental Toxins
This volume highlights how a report criticized for flawed methodology is influencing renewed efforts to restrict access to the abortion pill, mifepristone. It also explores how a federal plan to study the causes of autism could be contributing to stigma by over-emphasizing environmental toxins and examines the resurgence of false claims about fetal tissue in vaccines following comments from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Less Than Half of the Public Is Confident That the CDC and FDA Can Carry Out Core Functions
As the Trump administration overhauls government health agencies, partisan trust in these agencies on vaccines has shifted and few express confidence in their ability to carry out key tasks. Most adults are confident in the safety of routine vaccines, but the COVID-19 vaccines remain polarizing with many uncertain about false claims regarding mRNA technology.
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What Are ‘Improper’ Medicaid Payments, and Are They as High as a Trump Official Said?
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‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’