RT ADM Brian Christine, MD (@ADM_Christine)Today I signed the public health message to inform health care providers, families, and policymakers that current evidence does not support claims that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries are safe and effective treatments for pediatric gender dysphoria. https://t.co/A310aQZZsk ...

Joining us now, Dr. . Irwin Redliner. He is an MS now public health analyst and the founding director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University.Angela Coros is back with us. >> It is good to see you, Dr. . Redliner.Let's talk about these ACA subsidies because there was a really upsetting headline from NBC News, which is that with Obamacare premium hikes, more people are opting for no coverage or for cheaper plans. What does that mean for those folks who are not going to have th ...

Last week, a panel handpicked by our vaccined denying Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . reversed yet another long-standing recommendation on childhood vaccines.The CDC panel, which is stacked with antivaccine activists, voted to change the recommendation for when babies should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a first dose within 24 hours of birth, which has been recommended for over 30 years, the panel now recommends delaying the first dose until the chil ...

Dark day today. The vaccine advisory committee handpicked by RF Kennedy Jr. . did exactly what everyone worried about when the antivaxer was first named health secretary.The panel voted to end the CDC's decadesl long recommendation of a vaccine, one that has been safely administered for more than 30 years and has caused, listen to this number, a 99% drop in cases of kids and teens catching a potentially fatal disease. It's the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. It's something that's so successful, so uncontr ...

Doctors we have spoken to have expressed concern that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. .'s agenda is quote unscientific.Your reputation, like I said, is for transparency, for digging into the data. Do you share his skepticism on vaccines. >> Secretary Kennedy is asking questions that many Americans are asking.And in all of my interactions with him, he has asked questions or posed ideas, but said, "Ultimately, Marty, you're the physician and you do what you think is best in your judgment." And that's been ...

RFK Jr. .'s vaccine deniialism and skepticism is well documented. But the fact now that he has been able to put several like-minded individuals on this panel, thusly giving them a large and very official megaphone to voice some of the misinformation that could be deeply dangerous to kids as well as anxietyinducing to parents.As a pediatrician, can you just talk about what that looks like from your background, what it means in the larger medical community to see that. >> Well, it's outrageous. I mean, I have ...

A key CDC panel has voted to delay any decision for now about when kids should get vaccinated and what vaccines they should receive. That panel has been dramatically changed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. who fired several members of the panel earlier this year and then installed handpicked vaccine skeptics in their place. At the top of today's agenda, the hepatitis B shot, the first vaccine found to prevent cancer and whether it should still be given to newborn babies. Joining us now is former CDC ...

This is the LifeStraw. You may know the LifeStraw as the straw-like filter for drinking water when you're camping. Or maybe you have one in your fridge to filter your tap water.But did you know that the LifeStraw is also a dragon slayer once wielded by a US president. Let me explain. The concept for the Lifestraw originated with the Tor people in Moritania.It was developed further by the company Vestigard, a Swiss-based global health company, and later evolved into the Lifestraw guineaorm filter in partners ...

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . reshapes the federal government's approach to vaccines, diseases, and medicine.Some Democratic governors are taking public health into their own hands. The leaders of 15 US states and territories announcing yesterday a new Governor's Public Health Alliance that will share data, coordinate policy, and prepare for future pandemics. Hopefully, we don't get any.Joining us first this morning in a first on CBC interview is one of the alliance's founding members, Colorado Governor ...

As the federal government shutdown enters its third week, President Trump promises he'll slash more funding and carry out more firings. He says he'll target Democrats with those cuts. But in his rush to inflict maximum pain on the opposing party, there's already been plenty of backtracking, mirroring some of what we saw and the chaos of Doge cuts earlier this year.The latest confusion coming at the CDC where over a thousand employees were sent layoff notices on Friday. But the Washington Post reporting that ...