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Americans are losing confidence in the safety of vaccines. According to a recent Gallup poll, 20% of adults believe they’re more dangerous than the diseases they’re intended to prevent. That’s up from just 6% in 2001.This growing skepticism is proving deadly. Recently, an unvaccinated school-aged …
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When the first Covid-19 vaccines were developed, I felt cautiously optimistic. As a sociologist focused on public health, I believed these scientific breakthroughs would mark the beginning of the end of the pandemic.Yet vaccine hesitancy presented an ongoing obstacle to public health efforts. …
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MELBOURNE, Fla. — Unlike President Trump’s picks to lead other health agencies who established their conservative bona fides during the Covid-19 pandemic, his choice to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dave Weldon, was virtually invisible during that period. But an examination …
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Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here.I’m back after a two-week India trip, but mentally I am still scrambling up slopes in the Himalayan foothills. Please send your favorite chai recipes.advertisement Also, new name …
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The path from the atrocities of Nuremberg and Tuskegee to today’s robust ethics of medical research has not been easy.In response to these horrific events, a remarkable global consensus emerged, across countries in very different parts of the world and with very different types of governments: …
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Food has been front and center in the Make America Healthy Again movement, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to solve chronic disease in the United States. That’s why forthcoming federal guidance on nutrition could draw extra attention this time around, even as a massive …
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Here are a few things we know about how Robert F. Kennedy eats. He likes raw milk, full-fat dairy, and intermittent fasting. He’s suspicious of artificial food dyes and seed oils, and says “sugar is poison.” He doesn’t drink alcohol. If he spots roadkill, he may try to eat it, though not right …
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The Make America Healthy Again movement has a lot of the food industry on edge. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies have made concerns about the health effects of ultra-processed foods a government priority, putting titans like PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz, and Nestlé on the defensive.But …
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At a Brooklyn coffeeshop one recent rainy afternoon, the barista explained that lattes came just one of two ways: with whole milk or almond. It didn’t make sense to stock skim or reduced-fat milk when requests for those varieties are few and far between, she said — though a few months ago, she did …
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You’re reading the first story in The MAHA Diagnosis, a STAT series that examines the major elements of the Make America Healthy Again movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.When guests at the Make America Healthy Again inaugural ball sat down for dinner last month at the Waldorf Astoria in …
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