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Chicago’s Water Runs Through Lead Pipes. Why Are They Taking Decades to Replace?
Chicagoans face continued exposure to toxic drinking water as the city struggles for funding to remedy the system.
RFK Jr. Defunds Global Vaccine Group That Has Prevented Nearly 19 Million Deaths
Kennedy also recently fired a CDC vaccine advisory panel and stacked it with unqualified anti-vax appointees.
Majority of Americans Support Childhood Vaccination Despite RFK Policy Shifts
One expert said new polling shows that more support for vaccines is needed to achieve herd immunity for many diseases.
As Trump Guts Funding, HIV Activists Organize to Save Lives
The administration’s proposed budget for HIV prevention represents a 78 percent reduction compared to last fiscal year.
GOP Proposals for Tax Restrictions May Defund States’ Medicaid Programs
The loss of revenue could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
Historic Black Community Takes On Elon Musk Over Environmental Racism
South Memphis residents are fighting back against unpermitted pollution from the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
A Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes On DOGE Amid Rising Cases of Black Lung Disease
Researchers working to prevent deaths from the disease, which has killed over 75,000 miners, received layoff notices.
RFK Jr. Poses a Threat to Vaccine Policy. Here’s How Doctors Are Preparing.
Physicians are taking joint actions and figuring out how to give patients reliable information amid the uncertainty.
The FDA Allowed Contaminated Factories to Send Drugs to the US
Medications that otherwise would’ve been banned went to unsuspecting patients across the US, including some with cancer.
Former CDC Board Members Say RFK Jr. Has “Critically Weakened” Vaccine Program
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions at the CDC “put U.S. families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses,” they say.