Trump administration orders US health programs to move away from overdose prevention

Experts say move signals greater political interference into public health and will exacerbate opioid overdose crisis

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FDA to discuss easing restrictions on peptides despite safety concerns

Committee will meet in July to discuss peptides now sold in gray market despite limited evidence of safety and efficacy

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Senator Ron Wyden accuses US health agency of plan to deport more than 500 migrant children

Wyden says in letter addressed to Robert F Kennedy Jr that HHS is preparing an ‘unprecedented legal framework’

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New evidence casts doubt on RFK Jr testimony before Senate

Kennedy repeatedly said in Senate testimony that 2019 trip had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’. An email from his then colleague says they were on a vaccine-related ‘mission’

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CDC’s chief blocked a covid vaccine study. Now it’s in a top medical journal.

The study found that the vaccine reduced the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalisations among healthy adults by about half last winter. ... Barron said she believed the study was not published because the findings did not support Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda that wants to limit the use of covid vaccine specifically. CDC’s chief blocked a covid vaccine study. Now it’s in a top medical journal.

https://science.isbrill.com/2026/06/24/cdcs-chief-blocked-a-covid-vaccine-study-now-its-in-a-top-medical-journal/

CDC’s chief blocked a covid vaccine study. Now it’s in a top medical journal.

The study found that the vaccine reduced the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalisations among healthy adults by about half last winter. ... Barron said she believed the study was not published because the findings did not support Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda that wants to limit the use of covid vaccine…

Josh Johnson on Trump’s reflecting pool drama: ‘the world’s largest kombucha’

The Daily Show host weighed in on Scottish soccer fans invading Miami, DC’s ‘Kool-Aid’ green reflecting pool and Fox News defending Trump

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Senators alarmed at Trump administration website Moms.gov promoting anti-abortion facilities

Administration claims website is resource for ‘new and expecting mothers’ but group of senators says it raises ‘profound’ health and safety concerns

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