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Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a big fan of Kennedy and MAHA, is angling to replace Cassidy — a Kennedy nemesis — atop the influential Health Committee next year if Republicans retain control of the Senate… Marshall founded a MAHA caucus to promote Kennedy’s push to combat chronic disease… Under Cassidy, the panel never held votes on three Kennedy-backed nominees, and the impasse led to the withdrawal of all three nominations… An OB/GYN before wading into politics, Marshall has criticized vaccine mandates and supported nutrition-forward health reforms, including a focus on chronic disease prevention. In a September hearing, Marshall endorsed Kennedy’s...

When it comes to vaccine policy, the U.S. government is holding up Denmark as a role model...The Scandinavian nation of 6 million gives children far fewer vaccines than the United States has done... The new U.S. schedule follows Denmark’s example. It no longer recommends that all children get vaccinated for half a dozen diseases: hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, meningococcal disease, influenza, and COVID-19. Instead, administering these shots should be “based on shared clinical decision-making” between parents and doctors, HHS says. The move elicited widespread criticism from doctors and public health experts—but it also drew attention to Denmark’s minimalist vaccination...

A former influential scientist who did work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is back in the grasp of U.S. law enforcement, facing financial fraud charges -- after more than a decade out of federal authorities’ reach, according to officials.

Top health officials don't want you to read this, that's exactly why you shouldEarlier this month, the Washington Post broke the news that Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, the CDC's temporary top official, delayed and then blocked a COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness paper from appearing in the agency's flagship scientific journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The manuscript was a typical one for the VISION (Virtual SARS-CoV-2, Influenza, and Other Respiratory Viruses) Network, a research collaborative between the CDC, Westat, and multiple U.S. health systems. Since 2019, the VISION Network has studied vaccine effectiveness using real-world data. Its investigations have routinely...

Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, former Coast Guard officer, is President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Trump announced late this afternoon. “Erica graduated from Brown University for College and Medical School, and served a distinguished career as a Doctor of Medicine in the United States Military, the Greatest and Most Powerful Force in the World, and then served as my Deputy Surgeon General during my First Term,” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post. Trump also appointed Sean Slovenski as the CDC deputy director and chief operating officer, Jennifer Shuford, MD,...

In a sweeping ruling, a single district judge blocks policy changes, elevates an advisory committee to gatekeeper status, and locks federal health policy in place A federal district judge in Boston has issued a sweeping order halting major changes to federal vaccine policy. In a single ruling, the court blocked the CDC’s revised immunization schedule, invalidated the newly reconstituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and voided every action taken by that committee. This decision is being framed as a procedural correction. It is not. It is a substantive intervention that freezes an elected administration’s policy direction and replaces it...

Potentially Deadly Bacteria Discovered in Canadian Email story to a friend The bacteria is called Tularemia -- one of the most infectious bacteria known to exist. "This is extremely rare," said Dr. Michael Moloney, a phiysician at the Hemphill County Clinic in Canadian. More than 15 rabbits and several squirrels have been found dead over the past few months in a wildlife preserve outside of of town. After a state wildlife official discovered the dead animals, the Texas Department of Health office in Canyon sent them away for tests at the Centers for Disease Control office in Colorado, where...

LOS ANGELES - A disease that can cause neurological illness and meningitis in people, rat lungworm, has been found in wild opposums, rats and a zoo animal in San Diego County, indicating its establishment in California for the first time. Researchers reported their findings in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If you rent a cheap Airbnb house in Las Vegas, you might not be altogether surprised to find dead crickets in the garage. But a thousand vials of medical samples in several freezers – and a centrifuge? After the cleaner and one guest fell ill at a property in the city’s Sunrise Manor neighborhood last week, federal agents raided it and found a whole laboratory’s worth of scientific kit of the kind more useful to medical scientists than, say, drug dealers. Curious. Curiouser still, the house belongs to a Chinese national named Jia Bei (Jesse) Zhu. He is currently in...

AFTER DONALD TRUMP was sworn in as president on January 20, 2025, he issued a flurry of executive orders that eventually saw online information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scrubbed from the Internet. Thousands of pages and datasets disappeared. Resources like “RSV Vaccine Guidance for Pregnant People,” “Preventing HIV with PEP,” and more, vanished. Suddenly, Americans could no longer turn to the nation’s premier public health organization for reliable information.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday revealed that childhood and teen obesity rates in the U.S. have reached record highs in recent years. The first report details how the CDC’s researchers found that 40.3 percent of adults 20 and older were found to be obese, which included 9.7 percent who have severe obesity and another 31.7 percent who are classified as overweight. This report was conducted between August 2021 and August 2023. Between 1988 and 1994, when the second report was being surveyed, researchers found that almost 23 percent of adults 20 years and older were...

A vaccine to protect against fentanyl’s deadly effects is headed for clinical trials in humans. The vaccine, which showed positive results in studies of mice and rats, is designed to block fentanyl from entering the brain, blocking its effects and preventing overdoses. If approved, it would become the first treatment to prevent overdoses of fentanyl, which is the leading cause of drug overdose death, statistics show. This is different than treatments like naloxone, which reverse the effects after an overdose. How it works The vaccine is designed to create antibodies against fentanyl, which keeps the drug from crossing the blood–brain...

Infants vaccinated in their second month of life were more likely to die in their third month than unvaccinated infants, according to an analysis of data obtained from the Louisiana Department of Health. Children’s Health Defense scientists Brian Hooker, Ph.D., and Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., who conducted the analysis, called on health authorities to make similar datasets available for independent analysis, arguing that transparency is essential for evaluating vaccine safety at the population level. ================================================================ Infants vaccinated in their second month of life were more likely to die in their third month than unvaccinated infants, according to an analysis of data...

CDC just published its 2025 vaccine schedules. We have now gone from 7 routine vaccine injections in 1986 to over 200 routine vaccine injections in 2025. In 1986, before vaccine makers had broad immunity to liability for injuries, CDC's schedule had 7 routine childhood injections and none for adults or pregnant women. CDC's 2025 schedule has 5 routine injections during pregnancy, over 70 routine childhood injections (birth to age 18), and over 130 routine adult injections (up to age 79). Counting non-routine injections, there are even more. Here is an image comparing injections up to only 1 year of age...

Agency officials were not aware that the HHS secretary was going to change the recommended vaccine schedule.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s surprise announcement Tuesday ending coronavirus vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women blindsided the agency that offers that advice, according to current and former federal health officials.Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scrambling to understand Kennedy’s decision, announced in a 58-second video on X on Tuesday Five hours later, CDC officials received a one-page “secretarial directive,” dated May 19 and signed by Kennedy, that contradicts some of what he said...

The move could shift long-standing practices of how and when children are immunized in the United States.ATLANTA — The newly formed vaccine advisory committee handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that it would examine the cumulative effect of the childhood vaccine schedule and reevaluate hepatitis B immunization recommendations — moves that could shift long-standing practices of how and when children are immunized in the United States. Kennedy, who previously founded an anti-vaccine group, has long called for an investigation into the number of shots children receive. Medical experts say Kennedy has falsely linked an...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed six vaccines from the recommended list for American children on Monday, a sweeping decision that could have widespread consequences for U.S. public health. Before Monday, the CDC had recommended vaccines against 17 different diseases for children across the nation, but the decision announced Monday cut that number to 11. The vaccines removed from the list include shots for rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, influenza and meningitis, according to documents released by the federal Health Department. Shots against measles, mumps, rubella, polio, pertussis, tetanus, diphtheria,...

The biggest story of 2025, to judge from the number of people who sent it to me, was this raccoon: In case you somehow missed this story: In late November, this raccoon got into a state liquor store in Ashland, Va., by falling though the ceiling. Once inside, the raccoon ransacked the store, leaving a trail of broken bottles... ...and apparently consuming a large quantity of booze before passing out in the bathroom next to the toilet. That’s where the raccoon was found by a store employee, who called an animal-control officer, who took it to an animal shelter. When...

Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, has a questionable public health track recordThe CDC's internal email server now lists Louisiana physician Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, as the agency's principal deputy director. Until now, Abraham served as Louisiana's surgeon general. The above screenshot was provided to Inside Medicine on the condition of anonymity. While the news has not yet been publicly announced, an HHS spokesperson confirmed this on Tuesday. 'An Irresponsible Choice' One source, a national public health expert who previously served in government and is familiar with Abraham's career, said that this would be "an irresponsible choice." He added, "He's a dangerous...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says that it’s possible vaccines cause autism, in a reversal of its previous stance.A sign at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., on Aug. 25, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times“The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism,” the CDC said in a Nov. 19 update to its website. “Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.”The CDC cited a 2006 paper that analyzed surveys of parents with...