Isabella Cueto
Chronic Disease Reporter at STAT
Reporter for @statnews writing about chronic disease, MAHA & more. Message me on Signal isabellacueto.03 or find me elsewhere 🦋@isabellacueto.bsky.social
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5 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Isabella Cueto
On Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it was canceling more than $700 million worth of contracts with Moderna to develop, test, and license mRNA vaccines for flu strains that could cause future pandemics, including the H5N1 bird flu virus.
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5 days ago |
statnews.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Isabella Cueto
WASHINGTON — mRNA, a Nobel-winning technology harnessed by Trump officials to create Covid shots in record time, is becoming a political reject as the nation’s leaders openly embrace vaccine skepticism. Republican lawmakers and federal health officials alike are shunning messenger RNA, a basic building block of biology that proved its value during Covid, and that holds promise for combating the next pandemic and unlocking new cancer treatments.
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5 days ago |
flipboard.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Isabella Cueto
19 hours ago"Our members are surviving with grace," says Justine Adhiambo Obura, the chairperson of No Sex for Fish. Goats and Soda No Sex For Fish: How Women In A Fishing Village Are Fighting For Power She's talking about a cooperative of 20 women who did the unthinkable. They are fishmongers from the village of …
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Isabella Cueto
WASHINGTON — The Make America Healthy Again commission’s first report on the nation’s health crisis is in, and it sounds familiar. The assessment, kept under tight wraps before Thursday — the commission met just once, behind closed doors — lays out Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views, and gives some sense of where his department will target its efforts.
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Isabella Cueto
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cites a lofty goal as health secretary: “to reverse the chronic disease epidemic in America.” It’s a goal he shares with Americans of all stripes, who have watched the burden of death and disability rise from obesity, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses.
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