Rob Stein

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Rob Stein

6 hours agoThe senator failed America on vaccines. It’s easy to forget that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault on vaccines—including, most recently, his gutting of the expert committee that guides American vaccine policy—might have been avoided. Four months ago, his nomination for health secretary was in serious …

1 week ago | wusf.org | Rob Stein

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has upended medical research and public health in the U.S. in many ways. One of the ideas that could be influencing his overhaul of federal health agencies dates back to ancient Greece. The miasma theory is one of the first ideas that civilization hatched to try to explain why people get sick. "It goes back to Hippocrates," says Dr. Howard Markel, an emeritus professor of medical history from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

3 weeks ago | wknofm.org | Rob Stein

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:The Trump administration is making it more difficult for healthy children and healthy pregnant women to get the COVID vaccine, and that is worrying parents, younger adults and pregnant women who still want the shot. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein spoke with some of them. ROB STEIN, BYLINE: Loryn Competti (ph) was relaxing with her husband at their home in Cincinnati when she heard about the new recommendations for who should get a COVID vaccine.

3 weeks ago | m.kuow.org | Rob Stein

Loryn Competti was watching the news with her husband at their home in Cincinnati when she heard about the new federal policy about who should get a COVID vaccine. "I started crying," says Competti. "I was like, 'Am I really not going to be able to get this vaccine? Why? Why?' That's absolutely terrifying."Competti, 30, is about five months pregnant, which means she's at high risk for serious complications from COVID.

4 weeks ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Pien Huang |Rob Stein

The federal government has removed the recommendation that children and pregnant women get routine COVID-19 vaccines. The change, reflected in new vaccine schedules posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 30, results from a directive announced on May 27 by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a minute-long video posted on X.