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Kemp Touts Georgia’s Alternative to Medicaid Expansion Despite Missing Key Goals
Three-quarters of Pathways to Coverage's $86 million price tag has gone to consultants, according to an investigation.
Pain Clinics Exploited Opioid Dependency to Earn Millions From Ineffective Shots
Chronic pain patients received medically unnecessary injections from Pain MD as part of a decade-long fraud scheme.
Trump’s Plan to Make America Healthy Again? Continued Exposure to Lead in Water.
No one knows how many lead pipes funnel tainted water into schools and daycares, but the GOP is derailing remediation.
Urgent CDC Data on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate
In a letter, CDC advisory committee members requested an investigation into missing data and delayed reports.
Data on Corporate Pollution and Emissions Now Threatened Under Trump
Researchers have published data on corporate pollution and emissions since 2004. Now the data is at risk under Trump.
We Are About to Learn What a Post-Truth Approach to Public Health Feels Like
Trump and Musk are slashing global vaccination efforts, funding for medical research and access to health information.
Federal Judge Mandates Return of Scrubbed Health Resources by Trump Admin
A Public Citizen attorney called the order “an important victory for doctors, patients, and the public health.”
Trump’s Climate Funding Freeze Leaves Tribes and Community Groups in Limbo
Groups have been unable to access their money despite court orders requiring that the federal government release it.
Exxon Is Quietly Planning New $8.6 Billion Plastics Plant for Texas’s Gulf Coast
Already dealing with pollution, residents of Point Comfort find the news alarming.
Distraught EPA Employees Fear for Their Futures Under Trump
“I’m going to stand up to them,” one scientist said. “I may lose the battle, but principally I will have won the war.”