Talk Fuse

    Topic: Health

    Health covers developments in medicine, public health, wellbeing and access to care, from new research and treatments to the policies that shape people’s choices.

    The topic also follows the human impact of illness, injury and healthcare decisions, including debates over screening, cancer care, mental health and gender-affirming treatment. It matters because health stories can affect individual lives while revealing wider questions about evidence, safety, fairness and public services.

    • American Academy of Pediatrics calls Trump vaccine order ‘dangerous’

      The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted President Trump’s Monday executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines.  “As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today’s executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous,” Dr. Andrew Racine said in a release. …

    • White House thrusts vaccines back into headlines 

      Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare   The Big Story White House thrusts vaccines back into headlines The Trump administration appeared to be backing away from making moves on changing vaccine policy in recent months, perhaps wary of political backlash ahead of the midterm elections. But it all came roaring…

    • Fauci in the hot seat as GOP senator tears into ‘truly sick’ vaccine texts: ‘Tip of the iceberg’

      Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has escalated his scrutiny of Dr Anthony Fauci after texts released from the former COVID-19 response coordinator’s government phone showed Fauci privately raising concerns that mRNA vaccines administered during the first trimester of pregnancy could potentially cause miscarriages. Johnson, who is leading the investigation, described the disclosure as “just the tip…

    • Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don’t exist

      President Trump signed an executive order significantly overhauling federal childhood vaccine recommendations, cutting the number of recommended jabs from 18 to 11 and requiring several to be split into separate doses spread across more medical appointments. The move is not grounded in new scientific evidence but reflects long-debunked anti-vaccine claims, including that vaccines cause autism…

    • Cassidy blasts vaccine order, saying Trump has no ‘expertise to make these changes’

      Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) blasted an executive order President Trump signed Monday that splits the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot across three separate visits.   “I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The President does not have the expertise to make these changes. Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause…

    • Child vaccine schedule reduced as Trump moves to dramatically shift medical power to parents

      President Donald Trump has signed an executive order overhauling the childhood vaccination schedule recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a move his administration says restores greater medical decision-making power to parents. The White House has branded the initiative the “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations”, arguing that the changes bring the…

    • Georgia jogger runs for her life after stranger allegedly tries to mow her down 3 times

      A woman jogging in Cherokee County, Georgia, was allegedly targeted by a stranger who tried to run her over three times after she offered him a brief, friendly greeting during her Sunday morning workout. The attack was captured on video, and the accused driver has since been arrested and charged over the incident, which has…

    • Trump and RFK Jr. try again to upend vaccines for kids

      President Trump signed an executive order on Monday about vaccines, saying children should get fewer. His administration has been blocked in the courts from changing the vaccine schedule.

    • GOP senators release texts from Fauci’s government cellphone

      Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.) on Monday released text messages Dr. Anthony Fauci sent and received in 2021 regarding the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women.  Obtained from Fauci’s government cellphone, the text messages are among more than 34,000 on the device, according to Johnson’s office. The lawmakers also…

    • Trump order calls for fewer childhood vaccines

      An executive order signed by President Trump Monday would upend the childhood vaccine schedule by recommending splitting up the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot across three separate visits.  The order builds on other efforts by Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reshape and whittle down the number of…