Kavita Patel

2 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Kavita Patel

The Food and Drug Administration is rewriting America’s Covid vaccine playbook — and not for the better. Its new guidance would trade the clarity and reach of our current vaccination strategy for a confusing age-based and risk-based framework that simply doesn’t fit the realities of Americans’ health.

2 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Kavita Patel

Former President Joe Biden’s recent prostate cancer diagnosis has brought renewed attention to this common but serious disease. As a primary care physician who has cared for many patients with prostate cancer, I’d like to address some key questions many Americans may have — including how this cancer might have developed without earlier detection. Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, characterized by a Gleason score of 9.

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Benjamin Miller |Norman Ornstein |Kavita Patel

May is Mental Health Awareness Month—a time when the nation is supposed to recommit to the mental health and well-being of millions struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, and addiction. But instead of renewed support, the American people are getting a very different kind of message from the Trump administration: one of disinvestment, dismantling, and disregard. More than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness—and over half receive no treatment. That’s not just a failure.

2 months ago | msnbc.com | Kavita Patel

In a Fox News interview last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that poor nutrition played a role in making an unvaccinated school-age child in West Texas’ Mennonite community the first person to die in the U.S. of measles in 10 years.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Kavita Patel

1 hour agoRFK Jr. touts beef tallow french fries at Steak 'n ShakeHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised Steak ‘n Shake for cooking its french fries in beef tallow while he was being interviewed at the fast food chain on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program. Chris Hayes points out RFK Jr.'s choice to focus on french fries while the deadly measles outbreak spreads through the country.