Lauren Gardner
FDA Politics and Policy Reporter at POLITICO
Writer at Prescription Pulse Newsletter
FDA politics & policy reporter @POLITICO. Honorary 🇨🇦. 26.2 x5. It's pronounced "wooder." RTs ≠ ;) [email protected]
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politico.com | Lauren Gardner |Sophie Gardner
Here are the takeaways from the two-day meeting at CDC headquarters in Atlanta: Its agenda was Kennedy’s The panel voted Thursday to stop recommending that anyone get a flu vaccine that contains thimerosal, a preservative that Kennedy has long wanted gone. Kennedy, in 2014, wrote a book about thimerosal, arguing that it likely causes autism and should be banned.
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politico.com | Sophie Gardner |Lauren Gardner
The CDC director usually needs to endorse the recommendations before they are official. But Kennedy will likely be the one to endorse these recommendations because there is currently no CDC director or acting director.
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politico.com | David Lim |Lauren Gardner
With Carmen Paun Health experts worry that the newly approved HIV drug, lenacapavir, won't reach those in poorer countries now that the U.S. has cut its foreign aid. | Nardus Engelbrecht/AP ACCESS WOES FOR HIV DRUG — HIV and global health activists say the deployment of Gilead’s twice-a-year HIV prevention shot is the world’s best chance to beat back the virus and prevent new infections, Carmen reports.
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politico.com | Sophie Gardner |Lauren Gardner
The health secretary wrote a 2014 book arguing that thimerosal caused brain damage, a claim his own agencies say is unfounded. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired a vaccine advisory panel’s 17 members last week and replaced them with eight new ones. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Before he became health secretary, Robert F.
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politico.com | Lauren Gardner |David Lim
Genentech's Fritz Bittenbender, newly elected as the Biotechnology Innovation Organization's board chair, says the U.S. faces an existential crisis around several health policies. | Genentech NEW BIO CHAIR’S POLICY TAKE — The biotech industry faces a mix of longstanding and novel political challenges amid President Donald Trump’s second term. One of its chief lobbying arms is gearing up to take them on.
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Great @dannyn516 @davidalim piece on a key chronic disease issue the MAHA report overlooked: smoking.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to tackle the underlying causes of chronic disease in America. But he rarely mentions the nation's leading cause of preventable deaths: smoking. w/ @dannyn516: https://t.co/afPzj7UEEZ
RT @sophie_gardnerJ: NEW: HHS sent a document to lawmakers justifying the decision to remove the recommendation for Covid vaccination durin…
Scoop: HHS justifies decision to stop recommending Covid shots during pregnancy — with studies supporting their safety. W/@sophie_gardnerJ https://t.co/OLX0gKN8we
