Isabella Cueto
Chronic Disease Reporter at STAT
Journalist covering chronic disease for @statnews.
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1 week ago |
statnews.com | Isabella Cueto
An internal budget document leaked to the press on Wednesday gives the clearest vision yet of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s planned chronic disease-fighting agency, the Administration for a Healthy America. The Office of Management and Budget document, which STAT obtained, has not been authenticated by the Department of Health and Human Services — and would require Congress’ approval to become real — but it sketches out a new HHS.
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1 week ago |
statnews.com | Isabella Cueto
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the country will soon know what is causing a rise in autism rates, but there is little sign he has a team in place yet. Nearly two dozen prominent voices from mainstream autism research and in the anti-vaccine world said they have not been approached by Kennedy, and have no details about the proposed studies. On Wednesday, the health secretary appeared in a press conference alongside Walter Zahorodny, director of a New Jersey autism surveillance study.
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1 week ago |
autism.einnews.com | Isabella Cueto |Tara Bannow |Anil Oza |O. Rose Broderick
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the country will soon know what is causing a rise in autism rates, but there is little sign he has a team in place yet. Nearly two dozen prominent voices from mainstream autism research and in the anti-vaccine world said they have not been approached by Kennedy, and have no details about the proposed studies. On Wednesday, the health secretary appeared at a press conference alongside Walter Zahorodny, director of a New Jersey autism surveillance study.
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Isabella Cueto
A small office that produced data on alcohol-related deaths and harms, and worked on policies to reduce them, has been shuttered by the Trump administration. Those involved with the work say it was the only group in the federal government focused on preventing excessive drinking and the many problems associated with it, including chronic diseases.
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Isabella Cueto
WASHINGTON — A week after widespread cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services, many workers are left wondering: Was that legal? Some lawyers and labor experts say errors in termination notices and the swift speed and scale of the firings raise legal questions. The reduction-in-force, or RIF, brought the toll at HHS to 20,000 workers, according to government estimates.
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RT @JasonUkman: NEW: RFK Jr. suggests some vaccines are risky or ineffective, downplays measles threat. The claims, dismissed by health e…
CUT: The federal program dedicated to studying alcohol-related health harms + funding prevention work across the US. 11 states had ongoing grants — now in peril — to address a leading, preventable cause of deaths, injuries and chronic diseases. https://t.co/mAlAdLE0Q9
A STAT reporter's dispatch from RFK Jr.'s "MAHA Tour" of the Southwest amid measles outbreak: https://t.co/3TNZFUNM1u
