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Analysis: Congressional Republicans taking quieter approach to undermining Obama care

Tue, 2025-06-03 11:17 — mike kraft

Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of. They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law. Paige Winfield Cunningham The Washington Post

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Previous Medicaid expansion reduced mortality among low income adults--study

Tue, 2025-06-03 11:02 — mike kraft

New research shows Medicaid expansion reduced mortality in low-income adults A new working paper from the University of Chicago provides the strongest evidence to date that expanding access to health insurance can save lives. University of Chicago Medical Xpress

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COVID vaccines: Parents of chldren in clinical trials criticize Trump administration's restrictions

Tue, 2025-06-03 10:18 — mike kraft

A ‘war on children’: as US changes Covid vaccine rules, parents of trial volunteers push back Frustration and anger mount as Trump administration contemplates new trials and restrictions for Covid vaccines The Guardian

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Analysis: As a new COVID subvarient spreads, Trump administration narrows approved vaccine recipients

Tue, 2025-06-03 10:11 — mike kraft

A new COVID subvariant spreads rapidly as Trump pivots away from vaccines A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California—heightening the risk of a potential summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder ... Rong-Gong Lin II Medical Xpress

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Trump administration cuts safety training for logging and other dangerous jobs

Mon, 2025-06-02 10:36 — mike kraft

Trump cuts threaten safety training for America’s most dangerous jobs

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Trump administration budget proposes 40% cut in National Institutions of Health

Mon, 2025-06-02 10:21 — mike kraft

HHS budget proposal details significant cuts to National Institutes of Health, other agencies | CNN A budget proposal for the US Department of Health and Human Services details extensive cuts to funding for the National Institutes of Health, part of an effort to consolidate the work of its 27 institutes into just eight while reducing the agency’s budget nearly 40%. Katherine Dillinger CNN

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Opinion: How Trump supporters views of COVID origins played a role in defunding U.S. science

Fri, 2025-05-30 17:49 — mike kraft

Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science | Think Global Health Defunding scientific research in the United States has halted disease cure studies amid multiple infectious crises Think Global Health

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Analysis: There's no evidence work requirements for Medicaid recipients will boost employment

Fri, 2025-05-30 16:23 — mike kraft

There's no evidence work requirements for Medicaid recipients will boost employment Republicans in the U.S. Senate are sparring over their version of the multitrillion-dollar budget and immigration bill the House of Representatives passed on May 22, 2025. Colin Gordon Medical Xpress

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White House says it will fix ‘formatting errors’ in RFK Jr. ‘MAHA Report’

Fri, 2025-05-30 15:41 — mike kraft

White House to fix ‘formatting errors’ in RFK Jr. ‘MAHA Report’ The White House on Thursday said it will fix errors in its “Make America Healthy Again,” or MAHA, report after a news outlet’s investigation found that it cited sources that don’t exist. The … nweixel The Hill

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US CDC changes language, keeps modified recommendation of COVID vaccines for healthy kids

Fri, 2025-05-30 15:20 — mike kraft

CDC removes language that says healthy kids and pregnant women should get COVID shots The nation’s top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women may — but no longer should — get COVID-19 vaccinations. AP News

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency posted new recommendations that say healthy children and pregnant women may get COVID-19 vaccinations, removing stronger language that those groups should get the shots.

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