Elizabeth Cooney

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Cardiovascular Reporter at STAT

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Public health leader calls for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, citing 'complete disregard for science'

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

The executive director of a national public health organization is calling for Health Secretary Robert F.
Public health leaders, besieged and regretful, talk of re-establishing trust

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

For public health agencies across the country, the Trump administration has meant taking blow after destabilizing blow. Covid-19 pandemic dollars were pulled. States like Minnesota and cities like Austin cut jobs that had been federally funded. Research grants were canceled in the name of excising diversity programs.
Whiplash. Disbelief. Chaos. Therapists hear tales of trauma from federal health workers

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

It started in January, when federal health workers were assigned to scrub their agencies’ websites of now-forbidden words. Those first few days of the Trump administration landed like psychic blows to career scientists and other employees dedicated to public health research and practice. “Every hour, it seemed like there was something new.
Science panel's advice for next dietary guidelines could be on collision course with MAHA

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Food has been front and center in the Make America Healthy Again movement, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to solve chronic disease in the United States. That’s why forthcoming federal guidance on nutrition could draw extra attention this time around, even as a massive reorganization of the nation’s health workforce unfolds. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans come out every five years, jointly framed in their final form by federal health and agriculture agencies.
New York City’s health department just lost $100 million in federal funds. That has consequences

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

If a child in New York City showed up with a fever and a rash that might be measles, it should be simple to have a blood test quickly confirm one way or the other. But $100 million in federal funding was just cut from New York City’s health budget, and that included money for staff and supplies at its public health labs.
50 canceled vaccination clinics, and other local impact from HHS cuts

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Just last week, the leader of public health in Dallas had to cancel 50 vaccination clinics, including events specifically targeting schools with low immunization rates, all while the West Texas measles outbreak continues to flare. Then on Tuesday came the layoffs of thousands of Health and Human Services employees.
Down to their heart cells, women and men have cardiovascular differences that matter

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Heart disease has long been the leading killer of adults, but beyond that stark fact, men and women diverge. From differences at the cellular level of the heart to circulatory structure to symptoms of distress and treatment, researchers are finding new manifestations of gender differences in cardiovascular disease.
State and local health departments grapple with flurry of cuts from D.C.

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Food programs in poor neighborhoods. People to track surges of Covid, measles, or other diseases. Programs to help people with addiction. The cascade of budget cuts from Washington has hundreds of state and local health officials around the country struggling to assess the impact on their communities and departments. “I have food programs in some of the poorest ZIP codes that I can’t give food to children today.
Food insecurity in early adulthood raises the risk of heart disease, long-term study shows

1 month ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Start with a snapshot: Adults without reliable access to nutritious food are more likely to have heart disease than adults who don’t struggle to eat well. But which comes first, the food insecurity or the illness? Heart attacks or heart failure don’t develop overnight, so figuring out the chain of events means panning out for the long view.
Q&A: How ‘blast zone’ of gender politics is hurting research on women's health

1 month ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

David Page’s bio reads like a history of science in the age of genomics. In 1979 he was the first student to work on what we now know as the Human Genome Project. He then became a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research before joining its faculty (and MIT’s), and later served as Whitehead’s president for 16 years. He’s mapped, cloned, and published the complete genomic sequence of the Y chromosome.

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Elizabeth Cooney

Articles

Public health leader calls for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, citing 'complete disregard for science'

Public health leaders, besieged and regretful, talk of re-establishing trust

Whiplash. Disbelief. Chaos. Therapists hear tales of trauma from federal health workers

Science panel's advice for next dietary guidelines could be on collision course with MAHA

New York City’s health department just lost $100 million in federal funds. That has consequences

50 canceled vaccination clinics, and other local impact from HHS cuts

Down to their heart cells, women and men have cardiovascular differences that matter

State and local health departments grapple with flurry of cuts from D.C.

Food insecurity in early adulthood raises the risk of heart disease, long-term study shows

Q&A: How ‘blast zone’ of gender politics is hurting research on women's health

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