A child has been diagnosed with measles, and health officials are working to track exposure in three states and Washington, D.C.
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Trump administration targets hospitals, aims to cut off care to trans youth
The Trump administration is targeting trans youth and the hospitals that care for them announcing plans to cut Medicare and Medicaid funding.
‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams gets personal healthcare help from Trump, RFK
If you’re a regular MAGA – i.e. not a multimillionaire professed MAGA fan of Donald Trump – you’re on your own for healthcare. But if you’re Scott Adams, the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, Trump will move heaven and goddamn earth for you.
Department of Health updates immunization schedule for COVID, MMRV vaccines
The Virginia Department of Health has updated its immunization schedule after the CDC released guidance for COVID and MMRV vaccines.
The latest with Ben Cline: Our congressman’s phony war on mifepristone continues
Remember in June when Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline pretended to be concerned about the supposed risks to water quality of the abortion drug mifepristone?
Explainer: Trump on autism | Tylenol is bad, m’kay? And so are vaccines
Donald Trump, possibly the least-qualified person on the planet to make medical recommendations – “disinfectant,” anyone? – is now taking on Tylenol, which he said Monday is the cause of autism.
Bob Topper | Fundamentalist Christians no longer own the moral high ground
Fundamentalists were angered in 1973 when the Supreme Court confirmed the right to abortion and the rights of the LGBTQ community to live life as they choose.
Health experts: RFK Jr., DeSantis put children’s health at risk with anti-vaccine push
Virginia has high measles vaccination rates, but dangerous rhetoric from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatens to change that.
Beyer: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a ‘kook’ | Congressman calls on Trump to fire HHS director
Northern Virginia Congressman Don Beyer is going there with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., saying outright on Thursday that Kennedy needs to be relieved of his duties as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services.
With vaccine skeptics in charge, COVID-19, other routine shots may cost you more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is cancelling mRNA contracts and limiting the use of COVID-19 vaccines.