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Republican- led U.S. House COVID subcommittee final report criticizes public health response to the pandemic, supports lab theory of origin

Tue, 2024-12-03 11:52 — mike kraft
House Covid-19 panel releases final report criticizing public health response to the pandemic | CNN A Republican-led House committee investigating broad aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects in the US released a final report Monday summarizing its two-year effort, saying it hoped the work would “serve as a road map for Congress, the Executive Branch, and the private sector to prepare for and respond to future pandemics.” Katherine Dillinger CNN

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Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, International Court of Justice told as landmark hearings begin

Mon, 2024-12-02 10:32 — mike kraft
Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, top court told Vanuatu envoy makes claim as landmark hearing gets under way at international court of justice in The Hague The Guardian
 
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Analysis: Concern About How Trump’s Health Nominee Covid Contrarians Will Handle the Next Pandemic

Fri, 2024-11-29 10:38 — mike kraft

President-elect Donald J. Trump had already succeeded in rattling the nation’s public health and biomedical establishment by the time he announced on Tuesday that he had picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health. But amid growing fears of a deadly bird flu pandemic, perhaps no one was more rattled than experts in infectious disease.

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Analysis/Politics: Views of and reactions to Trump's nominatons for key health posts.

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:07 — mike kraft
4 takeaways from Trump’s health agency nominations President-elect Trump’s team to lead the nation’s health agencies is rapidly coming together.   Trump first tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HH… kwadington The Hill

...Almost all have been highly critical of the agencies they would run if confirmed, and experts say the nominees represent a complete overhaul of the vision and priorities of key agencies for health care and public health.

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Prof. Jay Bhattacharya, who backed COVID herd immunity, picked to lead National Institutes of Health

Wed, 2024-11-27 09:15 — mike kraft
Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, who backed COVID herd immunity, to lead National Institutes of Health President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya is a physician and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and is a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates. AP News

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Study shows how smart climate change and other policies could address competing land use needs.

Tue, 2024-11-26 17:19 — mike kraft
Is there enough land on Earth to fight climate change and feed the world? An MIT-led study shows that there is enough land to support efforts to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius while addressing competing needs for long-term food security and ecosystem health. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The team finds that with transformative changes in policy, land management practices, and consumption patterns, global land is sufficient to provide a sustainable supply of food and ecosystem services throughout this century while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions in alignment with the 1.5 C goal.

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Biden administration proposes government cover costly weight-loss drugs for obese Americans

Tue, 2024-11-26 11:20 — mike kraft
Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs for millions of obese Americans Millions of obese Americans would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning. AP News

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Expaining fluoride in water and the new controversy

Mon, 2024-11-25 18:39 — mike kraft
3 charts that help explain why there’s fluoride in drinking water | CNN President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his Health and Human Services secretary and while we don’t know what the policies will be, one thing Kennedy has signaled he would look at is fluoridation of water across the United States. Soph Warnes CNN
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Analysis: How the recent elections might affect the Affordable Care Act

Thu, 2024-11-21 12:12 — mike kraft
Washington Power Has Shifted. Here’s How the ACA May Shift, Too. - KFF Health News With a new Trump administration poised to move into the White House and Republicans set to control both chambers of Congress, party leaders are making a to-do list for the Affordable Care Act. khnsamw KFF Health News

...some high-ranking Republican lawmakers — who will now have control over both the House and the Senate — have said revamping the landmark 2010 legislation known as Obamacare would be a priority. They say the law is too expensive and represents government overreach.

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UN’s Guterres urges COP29 negotiators to reach funding agreement after draft spurned

Thu, 2024-11-21 10:28 — mike kraft
UN’s Guterres pushes COP29 negotiators to seal deal after draft spurned As Baku summit winds down, rich and poor countries at odds over how fight against climate change will be financed. Al Jazeera Al Jazeera

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Developing countries plus China, an influential negotiating bloc, want at least $500bn from developed nations in the form of grants or money without strings attached, rather than loans that add to national debt.

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