Polio vaccines at a pop-up vaccination clinic for polio at the Rockland County Department of Health in Pomona. (File photo: NYT) Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there was a time in this country when polio paralyzed 20,000 people in a year, … Read more
In an interview with GQ published this week, the 24-time Grand Slam champion said he “had some health issues” once he returned to his native Serbia and underwent toxicology tests to find the cause after his five-day detention in the Park Hotel in central Melbourne. “And I realized that in that hotel in Melbourne I … Read more
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But to what extent this can be blamed on social media is still an open question. “Polarization,” once painted as a global crisis stemming from online platforms, now looks more like a product of the highly idiosyncratic political and media culture in the U.S. One recent study found that polarization stayed the same or decreased … Read more
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, says any of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees seeking Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of efforts to discredit the polio vaccine. “Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” McConnell said in a statement Friday. “Anyone … Read more
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to publicly disclose more information underpinning its authorization of COVID-19 vaccines, after failing to persuade the court to end the public records lawsuit. In a ruling, on Friday, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas, ordered the agency to produce its “emergency use authorization” … Read more
Seed oils have suddenly become the new target for anti-science health zealots and conspiracy peddlers. One such proponent is Robert F Kennedy Jnr, incoming US president Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of health and human services. The politician specifically mentioned such products – cooking oils like canola, corn oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, rice bran … Read more
By AMANDA SEITZ, MATTHEW PERRONE and JONEL ALECCIA WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmentalist, for years gained a loyal and fierce following with his biting condemnations of how the nation’s public health agencies do business. And that’s put him on a direct collision course with some of the 80,000 … Read more
The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccines official says he hopes to find common ground with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was picked Thursday by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Health and Human Services. “What I would ask of him is that he keep an open mind. We’re happy to try to … Read more
He came under fire after the hearing especially for his comments about women, including his suggestion that he was “an ally of women” because he lives with his wife and has three daughters. Renew MEP Stine Bosse said she was “wholly unconvinced” that Várhelyi is the “right guardian of women’s rights,” while some MEPs suggested … Read more
