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  • At the NIH No Kings, a sense of momentum after a crushing year

    “When government stops serving its humblest… we serve and uplift each other. Look out, not up.” Some 9 million people reportedly attended No Kings rallies across the United States and the world today. About a thousand of them gathered outside the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Researchers and patients spoke about the…

    Melody Schreiber

  • What’s going on at the CDC?

    The vaccine advisory committee has been halted, with plenty of twists and turns. And we still don’t have a CDC director. There has been a lot going on with vaccines lately. The leader of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) said they were reconsidering all vaccines in the U.S., including shots to protect against…

    Melody Schreiber

  • The FDA just quietly walked back a much-hyped “treatment” for autism

    The Trump administration continues to stumble on autism. Back in September, Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they had a breakthrough: a B9 vitamin called leucovorin could treat autism, they claimed. The announcement was immediately met with skepticism, but that didn’t stop the flood of families calling doctors. “The average parent who maybe…

    Melody Schreiber