Tag: Public Health

Trump’s drug price controls are the wrong prescription for a real problem

Tiana Lowe Doescher · May 16, 2025 5:45 am

Capping drug prices will cripple innovation and harm public health

Michael M. Rosen · May 16, 2025 5:40 am

15-month-old August Goepferd received the measles, mumps and rubella booster shot at a clinic at Children's Minnesota in Minneapolis. August sat on the lap of his mom, Dr. Angela Geopferd, as registered nurse Kim Flaata administered the shot.

US surpasses 1,000 measles cases

Annabella Rosciglione · May 8, 2025 12:52 pm

An abortion rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills as demonstrators from both anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

Beltway Confidential

Are the FDA and drugmakers covering up the abortion pill’s risks?

Timothy P. Carney · April 28, 2025 2:13 pm

Three elite liberal establishments that failed students during COVID-19

Timothy P. Carney · April 25, 2025 4:26 pm

Jon Ossoff brings fired workers to CDC-focused rally outside Atlanta

Ross O'Keefe · April 25, 2025 2:38 pm

David Zweig proves the fog of war is no excuse for the damage done to children’s education in the name of public health

Jesse Adams · April 25, 2025 4:35 am

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services testifies during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing for his pending confirmation on Capitol Hill.

WATCH LIVE: RFK Jr. addresses rising autism rates as CDC releases new data

Brady Knox · April 16, 2025 10:46 am

With a cup of coffee and a cold drink in his hands, former President Bill Clinton leaves a local McDonald's restaurant in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, Jan. 13, 1993. The fast-food establishment is one of Clinton's usual stops during his morning jogs.

Trump’s physical continues long tradition of public scrutiny over president’s health

Haisten Willis · April 12, 2025 7:00 am

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services testifies during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing for his pending confirmation on Capitol Hill.

‘Resign or be fired’: Public health trade group head calls for axing RFK Jr.

Gabrielle M. Etzel · April 10, 2025 12:20 pm

Dispersing red dye in a glass of water with space for text.

West Virginia passes extensive ban on artificial food dyes

Brady Knox · March 25, 2025 10:16 am

A dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is displayed at the Neighborcare Health clinics at Vashon Island High School in Vashon Island, Washington, on May 15, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Measles outbreaks are the result of public health distrust after COVID-19

Zachary Faria · March 23, 2025 2:00 pm