Rob Stein
Correspondent and Senior Editor at NPR
Rob Stein is a correspondent/senior editor at NPR, focusing on health, medicine and biomedical research.
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1 week ago |
laist.com | Rob Stein
President Trump issued an executive order Monday restricting federal funding for research that involves a controversial field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. The research, which is also known as "dual-use" research, involves experimenting with viruses and other pathogens that have the potential to trigger a pandemic. Those studies could discover how infectious agents might become more transmissible or make people sicker.
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1 week ago |
kpcw.org | Rob Stein
The Trump administration plans to impose a new testing requirement for new vaccines — a demand that could delay the availability of the next round of COVID-19 vaccines and complicate the approval of other vaccines. The administration will require all new vaccines to be tested against an inert substance known as a placebo before they can be made available, which is a "radical departure from past practices," according to a statement from Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for Robert F.
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1 week ago |
opb.org | Rob Stein
Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin speaking before his appointment at a hearing on Capitol Hill on June 13, 2023. The letters began arriving at medical journals around the country over the last few weeks. “It has been brought to my attention that more and more journals and publications … are conceding that they are partisans in various scientific debates,” wrote Edward R. Martin Jr., the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, in a letter to the journal CHEST.
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2 weeks ago |
kpbs.org | Rob Stein |Carmel Wroth
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday declared that autism is a rapidly growing "epidemic" in the U.S. and vowed to identify the "environmental toxin" he says is to blame. He noted that autism incidence in the U.S. has increased from 1 in 36 children in 2020 to 1 in 31 in 2022, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the prevalence of autism.
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3 weeks ago |
vpm.org | Rob Stein |Carmel Wroth
Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health secretary, and note the causes of autism are complex.
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Trump restricts funding for controversial 'gain-of-function' research https://t.co/Dgx9Qdyaqp
Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department https://t.co/GxwEnzVSZv
RFK Jr. to require placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines https://t.co/IsybyEl9Jx