Shingles Vaccine May Stall Dementia, and Vaccine Mandates Save Lives, Studies Suggest
窪蹋勛圖厙 News senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health C矇line Gounder discussed vaccines in a couple of recent media appearances.
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Bird Flu Cases Are Going Undetected, New Study Suggests. It’s a Problem for All of Us.
Dairy workers in Texas show signs of prior, uncounted bird flu infections in a new study. Without labor protection and better health care, cases are bound to quietly rise as the outbreak among livestock blazes in the United States.
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Floridas RSV Season Has Started, and Its Coming Soon to the Rest of US. Here’s a Primer.
Floridas RSV season begins earlier and runs longer than anywhere else in the U.S., according to the University of Floridas Emerging Pathogens Institute. New vaccines can help, but most older adults, who are vulnerable to RSV, havent gotten them yet.
At GOP Convention, Health Policy Is Mostly MIA
Episode 356After an assassination attempt last weekend sent former President Donald Trump to the hospital with minor injuries, the Republican National Convention went off with little mention of health care issues. And Trumps newly nominated vice presidential pick, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, has barely staked out a record on health during his 18 months in office aside from being strongly opposed to abortion. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Renuka Rayasam, who wrote Junes installment of 窪蹋勛圖厙 News-NPR Bill of the Month, about a patient who walked into what he thought was an urgent care center and walked out with an emergency room bill.
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Finland Is Offering Farmworkers Bird Flu Shots. Some Experts Say the US Should, Too.
Even with a stockpile of bird flu vaccinations, the federal government is not offering them to those at high risk. Along with testing and measures to prevent spread, vaccinations may protect people and stop the outbreak from becoming a pandemic.
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The Chicken and Egg Problem of Fighting Another Flu Pandemic
The spread of an avian flu virus in cattle has again brought public health attention to the potential for a global pandemic. Fighting it would depend, for now, on 1940s technology that makes vaccines from hens eggs.
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4 Ways Vaccine Skeptics Mislead You on Measles and More
Vaccine scare tactics havent shifted, but more parents are falling for them. Heres what the rhetoric gets wrong and how it endangers children.
By Amy Maxmen and C矇line Gounder Too Big To Fail? Now Its ‘Too Big To Hack’
Episode 343Congress this week had the chance to formally air grievances over the cascading consequences of the Change Healthcare cyberattack, and lawmakers from both major parties agreed on one culprit: consolidation in health care. Plus, about a year after states began stripping people from their Medicaid rolls, a new survey shows nearly a quarter of adults who were disenrolled are now uninsured. Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Mary Agnes Carey to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner interviews Caroline Pearson of the Peterson Health Technology Institute.
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The Path to a Better Tuberculosis Vaccine Runs Through Montana
Researchers at the University of Montana have pitched in to develop a more effective vaccine in the fight against an ancient disease that still kills an estimated 1.6 million people a year worldwide.
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Readers Speak Up About Women’s Health Issues, From Reproductive Care to Drinking
窪蹋勛圖厙 News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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Four Years After Shelter-in-Place, Covid-19 Misinformation Persists
False claims that covid vaccines cause deaths and other diseases are still prevalent despite multiple studies showing the vaccines are safe and saved lives.
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A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox
Physician and podcast host C矇line Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh and brought back never-before-heard stories, many from public health workers whose voices have been missing from the record documenting the eradication of smallpox.
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Needle Pain Is a Big Problem for Kids. One California Doctor Has a Plan.
The pain and trauma from repeated needle sticks leads some kids to hold on to needle phobia into adulthood. Research shows the biggest source of pain for children in the health care system is needles. But one doctor thinks he has a solution and is putting it into practice at two childrens hospitals in Northern California.
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How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health
Framed in the rhetoric of choice, Tennessees new law governing childhood vaccinations is among more than a dozen recently passed or pending nationwide that set parental freedom against community and childrens health.
By Amy Maxmen The State of the Union Is … Busy
Episode 337At last, Congress is getting half of its annual spending bills across the finish line, albeit five months after the start of the fiscal year. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden delivers his annual State of the Union address, an over-the-counter birth control pill is (finally) available, and controversy erupts over new public health guidelines for covid-19 isolation. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Neera Tanden, the White House domestic policy adviser, about Bidens health agenda. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week that they think you should read, too.
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Florida Defies CDC in Measles Outbreak, Telling Parents It’s Fine to Send Unvaccinated Kids to School
The states surgeon general grants parents permission to send unvaccinated children to school during a measles outbreak, risking their health and that of others.
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How Fringe Anti-Science Views Infiltrated Mainstream Politics And What It Means in 2024
Opposition to vaccines and other public health measures backed by science has become politically charged. That makes dangerous misinformation much harder to fight.
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Montanas Effort to Expand Religious Exemptions to Vaccines Prompts Political Standoff
The dispute between state lawmakers and health department officials could delay a broader package of child care licensing changes until 2025.
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Emergency or Not, Covid Is Still Killing People. Heres What Doctors Advise to Stay Safe.
Thousands of people are still dying of covid, but government has mostly handed over responsibility to the people to weather the seasonal surges with their own strategies.
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What Would a Second Trump Presidency Look Like for Health Care?
Health policy during Donald Trumps tenure was dominated by covid-19 and a failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. His appointments to the Supreme Court led to the end of national abortion rights, and he took steps to increase hospital price transparency and improve care for veterans.
By Julie Rovner