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Christina Jewett

Washington, D.C., United States

Food and Drug Administration Reporter at The New York Times

New York Times reporter covering all things F.D.A. with an eye on intersection of malady & money. Tips? DMs open & ask for Signal.

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | nytimes.com | Christina Jewett

    The nation's health secretary announced that he planned to invite scientists to provide answers by September, but specialists consider that target date unrealistic. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation's health secretary, pledged on Thursday to seek out experts globally to discover the reasons for the increasing rates of autism in the United States.

  • 2 weeks ago | deepnewz.com | Christina Jewett

    44 posts • Grok (Beta)Updated Apr 6, 2025, 03:45 PMAn 8-year-old girl in West Texas has died from measles pulmonary failure at a Lubbock hospital, marking the second child death in the state due to the disease since January. The outbreak, which has infected 481 people in Texas, has prompted U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., known as a vaccine skeptic, to plan a visit to the state.

  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Christina Jewett

    John Murphy III, the president of the Association for Accessible Medicines, which represents makers of generic drugs, said in a statement that he supported efficiency efforts to get medications to patients faster, but "many of the reported cuts appear to do the opposite."The staff in the director's office in the Center for Veterinary Medicine was dismissed, bringing some work on responding to the bird flu to a halt. The office had studied how pasteurization kills bird flu in milk.

  • 3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Adam Liptak |Abbie VanSickle |Christina Jewett

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court handed a victory to the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, tossing out an appeals court decision that had found the agency acted unlawfully in rejecting applications from two manufacturers of flavored liquids used in e-cigarettes with names such as Jimmy the Juice Man Peachy Strawberry, Signature Series Mom’s Pistachio, and Suicide Bunny Mother’s Milk and Cookies.

  • 3 weeks ago | sanjuandailystar.com | Christina Jewett |Sheryl Gay Stolberg |Noah Weiland

    By Christina Jewett, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah WeilandThe Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned under pressure late last week and said that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.

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Christina Jewett
Christina Jewett @By_CJewett
10 Apr 25

--> Via The Atlantic: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the father of a child who died of measles: “He said, ‘You don’t know what’s in the vaccine anymore,’” Peter Hildebrand, whose 8-year-old daughter Daisy’s funeral had been held just hours earlier, told me. “I actually asked him

Christina Jewett
Christina Jewett @By_CJewett
8 Apr 25

NEW: SCOTUS overrules lower court order to bring back 16,000 probationary staffers from the Pentagon, the Treasury, and the Agriculture, Energy, Veterans Affairs and Interior Departments. @adamliptak reports: https://t.co/19iWBKyr2D

Christina Jewett
Christina Jewett @By_CJewett
7 Apr 25

RT @ByMikeBaker: The disparity has grown even further. New federal data shows that the United States now has: • 41,550 journalists • 280,59…