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Here are some articles I’ve worked on for 2025. You can also find them by Googling me.
May 2025
- Trump administration ending multiple HIV vaccine studies, scientists and officials say
- CDC now says kids “may receive” COVID-19 vaccines, should talk to their doctors
- CDC steps up measles travel warning after spread in airplane
- RFK Jr. says CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccine for children and pregnant women
- U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China
- RFK Jr. releases “MAHA” report on childhood chronic disease. Here’s what to know.
- FDA expands COVID vaccine warning about heart side effect risk for young males
- Who can get updated COVID vaccines this fall? FDA will OK for high-risk groups, calls for new clinical trials
- RFK Jr. tells farmers, GOP not to worry about his report targeting pesticides
- Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot” hit by Trump’s cuts to research at Harvard and Columbia
- RFK Jr. told Congress no working scientists were fired, but these top NIH brain scientists are still facing job cuts
- Pool fences and life jackets could save hundreds of lives, CDC estimates
- FDA greenlights marketing of first Alzheimer’s blood test for some patients
- FDA to revisit approval of “yoga mat” bread ingredient banned in Europe
- Trump wants drug price caps tied to foreign nations. Here’s why Biden never did it.
- Head of worker safety agency NIOSH restored, ahead of RFK Jr. hearing
- Trump ordering U.S. to pay only the price other nations do for some drugs
- Trump to unveil Medicare drug pricing plan after teasing “earth-shattering” announcement
- HHS moving to fire probationary employees again, officials say
- HHS to withhold some bonus pay earned by laid-off employees
- CDC disease detectives exempted from Trump hiring freeze, averting cut to program
- HHS revokes some layoff notices, including to 9/11 program
- FDA picks critic of COVID boosters to be new top vaccines official
- National Institutes of Health lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute
- FDA’s top inspector abruptly retires
- Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff
- Weekly measles cases hit new record amid worst outbreak since 1990s
- RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims
- HHS redirects $500 million to Trump appointee’s vaccine project, bypassing reviews
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
February 2025
January 2025
- Agencies asked to scrub federal government websites to remove diversity-related content
- CDC purges STD and vaccine recommendations after Trump gender order
- Abortion opponents praise RFK Jr., after he vows to follow Trump
- White House blames “outage” for locking out Medicaid, Head Start, health centers from funding site
- How are H5N9 and H5N1 different? What to know after California bird flu outbreak
- What to know about RFK Jr. as he faces Senate confirmation hearings
- CDC staff ordered to cut off communication with WHO
- Trump administration expected to go outside CDC for acting director
- Who is in charge of the CDC right now? Nobody knows for sure
- More than a dozen cats dead or sickened by bird flu in raw pet food, FDA says
- Biden administration seeks last-minute appeal of court loss over fluoride in water
- Medicare drug price negotiations to target Ozempic, Wegovy and other drugs
- How food brands and drugmakers are responding to FDA’s ban of food dye Red 3
- FDA moves to ban Red 3, citing concern over cancer in some animals
- FDA moves to cut nicotine from cigarettes, in plan first floated under Trump
- More than 1 drink a day raises risk of dying, new federal review concludes
- Food shoppers could see nutrition facts on the front, as FDA unveils proposed packaging rules
- Norovirus wave now more than double last year’s peak, in CDC’s data
- U.S. egg industry sees record chicken deaths from bird flu outbreak
- FDA finds little handwashing, dirty equipment at McDonald’s supplier linked to E. coli outbreak
- It feels like everyone has a stomach bug. A new norovirus strain might be to blame, CDC data suggests
- First U.S. bird flu death reported in Louisiana after severe case of H5N1
- Flu emergency room visits now “very high” nationwide, CDC says