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Here are some articles I’ve worked on for 2025. You can also find them by Googling me.

April 2025

• Former top health official criticizes RFK Jr. for downplaying measles deaths
• FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
• Former top FDA official warns RFK Jr. against giving “false hope” on autism
• Weekly measles cases top 90 in U.S. for first time in years
• CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
• CDC’s cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks
• Extra measles vaccine shot recommended for some travelers to Texas, other areas with outbreaks, CDC says
• CDC faces backlash for cutting sickle cell, adult disability programs
• RFK Jr.’s cuts to CDC lead poisoning team bring efforts to help tribes, health departments to a standstill
• RFK Jr. calls for end of fluoride in water, after Utah ban
• CDC redeploys to Texas measles outbreak after layoffs, as RFK Jr. calls vaccine “most effective way” to stop spread
• Medicare and Medicaid will not cover weight loss drugs, Trump administration decides
• RFK Jr. to lay off more NIH employees amid HHS restructuring, officials say
• FDA bird flu testing efforts disrupted by RFK Jr.’s layoffs, officials say
• RFK Jr. says 20% of health agency layoffs could be mistakes
• Federal judge temporarily blocks $11 billion in Trump administration’s cuts to public health funding
• RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis
• FDA planning for fewer food and drug inspections due to layoffs, officials say
• FDA lays off bird flu leadership, among steep cuts to senior veterinarians
• RFK Jr. purges CDC and FDA’s public records teams, despite “transparency” promises

March 2025

• RFK Jr.’s layoffs expected to gut worker safety agency NIOSH, officials say
• FDA’s top vaccine official forced out, decries RFK Jr.’s “misinformation and lies”
• FDA’s top vaccine official forced out, decries RFK Jr.’s “misinformation and lies”
• RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say
• Trump administration to shrink federal health agencies by 20,000 employees
• Trump nominates Susan Monarez for CDC director, elevating from acting role
• CDC, NIH and more health agencies brace for layoffs with DOGE and RFK Jr.’s restructuring. Here’s what we know.
• Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and former Texas Congressman Michael Burgess floated for CDC director
• U.S. records most measles cases in single year since record 2019 wave
• Dr. Oz pledges in confirmation hearing to continue Medicare drug price talks started by Biden
• White House pulls Dave Weldon’s nomination to run CDC
• RFK Jr. warns vaccinating poultry for bird flu could backfire
• Why RFK Jr.’s top spokesperson abruptly resigned from HHS last week
• Americas at risk of losing measles elimination status, U.N. agency warns

February 2025

• FDA allowed to help WHO update flu shots, despite Trump ban
• RFK Jr. rolls back transparency policy on Medicaid and NIH changes
• Flu shot less effective this season for some kids, CDC report suggests
• FDA cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines
• U.S. officials walk back plans to stop culling poultry for bird flu
• Flu vaccine this season may be poorly matched, early CDC data suggests
• FDA declares end to Wegovy and Ozempic shortage
• Mental health agency loses 1 in 10 staffers to DOGE cuts, 988 hotline team impacted
• Top FDA food safety official’s resignation letter warns firings will backfire on RFK Jr.
• Thousands of probationary federal health agency workers fired by letter this weekend. Here’s what it said.
• U.S. bird flu hospitalizations rise to 4 after Ohio discloses case
• Bird flu case with “flu-like symptoms” reported in Colorado, 1 person hospitalized
• CDC’s “disease detectives” apparently spared in DOGE cuts at health agencies
• Some CDC health data and webpages still offline after judge’s order
• Top-ranking NIH official forced to retire under Trump administration
• Flu deaths may have surpassed COVID deaths nationwide for first time since start of pandemic, early CDC data suggests
• U.S. records most whooping cough deaths since 2017
• New bird flu strain in cows spreads to Nevada dairy worker
• Federal judge blocks Trump administration cuts to medical research funding
• Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal
• Flu levels now highest since 2009 pandemic, CDC reports
• Trump taps Gerald Parker to be new head of pandemic office as bird flu threat grows
• Cows infected by lethal bird flu strain never before seen in the animal showing respiratory symptoms, Nevada says
• As Trump shuts down USAID missions, officials warn Ebola outbreak in Uganda will spread

January 2025

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