President Trump & his health officials have been calling to split the MMR vaccine into 3 shots. In a new CNN Explains episode, we look at what this might mean - using history as a guide: www.cnn.com/videos/title...

Confirmation hearing for Trump’s surgeon general nominee, Casey Means, is postponed… as she goes into labor From @owermohle.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/h...

Trump suggested he might get GLP-1 prices down to $150 Oz warned it’s not a done deal But what if it was? www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/h...

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

In AstraZeneca drug pricing announcement just now, Trump said some of its meds would get discounts of as much as 654% through TrumpRx Which is mathematically impossible But @ddale8.bsky.social looked into this before - and got the White House to explain its math: www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p...

Love the thought, West Elm, but what kind of tennis game has this many players on the court?

If you tuned in to last month’s ACIP mtg, there was a weird moment when a presenter invited by RFK Jr’s ACIP said that his research grant had been canceled abruptly, so he could only present preliminary results It then got weirder; HHS denied it Here’s the whole story www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/h...

Pfizer's stock rose 6.83% today after its drug pricing deal with the White House That added about $9.3B in market value

TrumpRx program promises discounts of 40-85% for Americans buying drugs directly from manufacturers White House fact sheet says discounts are off list prices Pfizer’s Xeljanz list price = $6,073/month 40% discount = $3,643/month @dusetzinas.bsky.social: “How is this a reasonable cash price?”

CNN Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten today on RFK Jr’s approval ratings

Trump’s directives on Tylenol on Monday, compared with communications from the FDA: www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/h...

Google search suggestions: such a snapshot of humanity

Trump says Cuba has 'virtually no autism.' That's news to Cuban doctors, @cnn.com's Havana bureau chief reports: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/23/a...

European Medicines Agency: “In the EU, paracetamol (also known as acetaminophen) can be used for reducing pain or fever during pregnancy if clinically needed. There is currently no new evidence that would require changes to the current EU recommendations for use.”

"My sense is the administration is disregarding solid science and replacing it with whim and whimsy — substituting seed oils with beef tallow for deep-frying french fries and cane sugar for high fructose cane syrup in soda,” Gardner said. From @cnn.com's Sandee LaMotte: www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/h...

In response to a call from President Donald Trump to make the positive impact of Covid-19 vaccines public, drug giant Pfizer posted a collection of more than 200 press releases and statements and 27 peer-reviewed data publications since early 2020: www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...

Dr. Paul Offit, a prominent voice on vaccines and frequent critic of RFK Jr, is blocked from participating in FDA’s vaccine advisory committee. HHS says his special government employee status expired. Offit says FDA had asked him to stay on 2 more years: www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/h...

1,000+ HHS employees (current & former) call for RFK Jr’s resignation www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...

Nearly two dozen people developed food poisoning in Florida after consuming tainted raw milk from the same farm, state health department says (from @reportergoodman.bsky.social) www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/h...

A major NIH grant to study ways to restore hearing was terminated by the Trump administration bc it was awarded through a DEI initiative—to a researcher who qualified bc of his own hearing loss www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/h... @manorlaboratory.bsky.social

Big shakeup at HHS, our new colleague @adamcancryn.bsky.social reports - RFK Jr fires chief of staff Heather Flick Melanson and deputy chief of staff for policy Hannah Anderson. Melanson had worked in first Trump admin Kennedy "lost confidence in them," sources say www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/h...

RFK Jr abruptly called off tomorrow's scheduled USPSTF meeting Notice came from the immediate Office of the Secretary "There is extraordinary concern," among those connected to the task force, "that it's about to be dismissed, like ACIP was," a source familiar tells us www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/h...

American Academy of Pediatrics v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Medical orgs led by AAP sue Trump admin health leaders over vaccine policy Plaintiffs include pregnant physician said to fear being blocked from getting Covid booster bc of RFK Jr's change to vaccine recs www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/h...

US measles cases are now the highest for any year since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, w 1,277 cases in 2025 so far. That surpasses the last record from 2019, when large outbreaks concentrated in Brooklyn & Rockland County NY threatened elimination status: www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/h...

New measles cases continue to pop up across US -Kentucky reports 4 new cases; 3 in one household and 1 unrelated from international travel -New Mexico this wk said 5 detainees in a detention center tested positive -Texas outbreak slowing; state reported no new cases this wk US 2025 total: 1,220+

On day 2 of ACIP, we’ll be hearing about thimerosal, a preservative removed from most vaccines ~25 yrs ago as a precaution. No harm was seen in multiple studies of thimerosal, which contains a form of mercury. But it became a focal point of people concerned about autism: www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/h...

Here we go

Slides posted for thimerosal presentation at ACIP included citation of study that appears not to exist “I don’t have a publication in Neurotoxicology by that title,” the apparent lead author told us Slide has since been removed First spied by @drboulware.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...

A former leader of Children's Health Defense will present to ACIP this week on thimerosal in flu vaccines. The addition of a discussion & vote on the preservative raised concerns that debunked links to autism would be resurfaced (w @reportergoodman.bsky.social) www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/h...

The US has passed 1,200 measles cases so far in 2025, per @cnn.com tally In West TX outbreak: -TX added 6 cases in the past week, to 750 as of 6/17; 97 hospitalizations; 2 deaths -NM still at 81 cases, 7 hospitalizations, 1 death -OK still at 20 cases -KS (may be linked) adds 3 to 79 cases

The agenda for ACIP (CDC's outside vaccine advisers) meeting next week posted - New items: a discussion & vote on thimerosal in flu vaccines, and a discussion & recommendations for the MMRV vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella, varicella) for kids under 5 www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/h...

W Tx measles outbreak is slowing; TX has moved to updating case # once/wk, on Tues - 744 cases, 96 hospitalizations, 2 deaths (as of June 10) NM: 81 cases, 7 hospitalizations, 1 death OK: 20 cases KS: 76 cases (+ 5 since June 4) US measles cases = at least 1,197 per @cnn.com tally

RFK Jr names 8 new panelists for CDC's vaccine advisory committee, days after dismissing all 17: Joseph R. Hibbeln, MD Martin Kulldorff, MD, PhD Retsef Levi, PhD Robert W. Malone, MD Cody Meissner, MD James Pagano, MD Vicky Pebsworth, OP, PhD, RN Michael A. Ross, MD www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...

CDC reinstates 450+ fired employees, including the childhood lead prevention team - about 20% of the 2,400 put on leave in the April reduction in force www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...

RFK Jr says he's dismissing all 17 members of CDC's vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) and will appoint new members, calling a number of them "last-minute appointees" of the Biden administration. HHS still says it plans to hold the next ACIP meeting June 25-27 www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...

TX & NM report no new measles cases since Tues in West TX outbreak OK adds 1 case to 19 US total = at least 1,168 cases in 2025 Deadly outbreaks are also ongoing in Canada & Mexico: www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...

Tues (belated) West TX measles update: Texas adds 4 cases to 742; 94 hospitalizations; 2 deaths NM adds 2 cases to 81; 7 hosp; 1 death OK adds 1 case to 18 KS adds 7 cases to 71 US total = at least 1,157 measles cases in 2025

Happy Gilmore Girls Day to all who celebrate ( @theresagaff.bsky.social)

Pfizer reported @ #ASCO25 today its colorectal cancer drug extended survival in patients w an aggressive form I spoke about it w CEO Albert Bourla, who also answered my Qs about other news topics. He emphasized alignment w Trump admin in many areas, but not all: www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/h...

Texas adds 9 new measles cases in W.TX-centered outbreak, to total of 738; 94 hospitalizations; 2 deaths NM remains at 79 cases; 7 hosp; 1 death OK remains at 17 cases KS adds 6 cases to 64 US total for 2025 is at least 1,128 cases per @cnn.com tally

Tues measles update: 1 new case in West Texas outbreak in TX; 94 hospitalizations; 2 deaths NM adds 1 to 79 cases; 7 hosp; 1 death KS: 58 cases OK: 17 cases IA, NE newly announcing cases US at a total of 1,087 cases in 2025, approaching 2019’s 1,274, most since measles was eliminated in 2000

RFK Jr. says the Covid-19 vaccine will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women (by @reportergoodman.bsky.social): www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/h...

NIH staff walked out of a townhall with Director Bhattacharya last week, as he suggested the NIH funded research that led to the pandemic. But the walkout had been preplanned to protest working conditions and staffers’ inability to meet with Bhattacharya to discuss them: www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/h...

Yesterday’s MAHA report decried the lack of NIH funding for nutrition research Last week, the Trump admin cut funding to two of the nation’s biggest and longest-running (NIH-funded) nutrition studies amid its battle with Harvard The Nurses’ Health Study is in jeopardy: www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/h...

TX adds 6 measles cases to 728; 94 hospitalizations; 2 deaths NM adds 4 to 78 cases; 7 hospitalizations; 1 death KS: 58 cases OK: 17 cases Separately, ND is up to 21 cases www.hhs.nd.gov/news/new-mea...

Tuesday measles update (1 day behind): TX adds 4 cases to 722; 92 hospitalizations (1 fewer than last update), 2 deaths NM: unchanged at 74 cases, 7 hospitalizations, 1 death KS still at 56 cases OK still at 17 cases

Texas adds 1 measles case - fewest in months - to 718 total in outbreak; 93 hospitalizations, 2 deaths NM adds 3 cases to 74; 7 hospitalizations, 1 death KS adds 8 cases to 56 OK: 17 cases

TX adds 8 measles cases to 717 total in outbreak; 93 hospitalizations, 2 deaths NM: 71 cases, 7 hospitalizations, 1 death KS: 48 cases, 1 hospitalization OK: 17 cases

US measles cases have topped 1,000 so far in 2025 - at least 1,018 in total per @cnn.com tally Outbreak in TX *may* be slowing - 7 new cases reported Friday, the smallest uptick in months - 709 total cases, 92 hosp, 2 deaths NM: 71 cases, 7 hosp, 1 death KS: 48 cases, 1 hosp OK: 17 cases

Today, Utah became the first US state to implement a ban on adding fluoride to drinking water. Up next w @jaketapper.bsky.social on what led to the ban and other states that may follow suit