Tanya Lewis
Senior Editor, Health and Medicine at Scientific American
Senior Editor, Health and Medicine @SciAm. Tweets are my own fault. https://t.co/JCmxRoCGZ5; @[email protected] (mastodon). She/her
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1 week ago |
scientificamerican.com | Tanya Lewis
After Harvard University pushed back against the Trump administration’s attempts to force the school to comply with sweeping political demands yesterday, the White House announced it would freeze more than $2.2 billion in Harvard’s funding—and threatened the university’s tax-exempt status.
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1 week ago |
scientificamerican.com | Tanya Lewis
There’s a common perception in the U.S. that taking public transit is dangerous. Headlines blare gruesome reports of people getting pushed in front of subway trains or attacked by strangers, stoking fear and anxiety.
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2 weeks ago |
scientificamerican.com | Tanya Lewis
Two infants have died of whooping cough in Louisiana in the past six months, according to the surgeon general of the state’s health department. The deaths from this vaccine-preventable illness are the first to occur in Louisiana since 2018. There have been 110 cases of whooping cough in the state so far this year, compared with 154 cases in all of last year, CNN reported. Cases have been rising throughout the U.S. after they dropped dramatically during the COVID pandemic.
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1 month ago |
scientificamerican.com | Tanya Lewis
Earlier this week the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Food and Drug Administration announced a new initiative aimed at improving the safety and quality of infant formula. Dubbed Operation Stork Speed—likely a reference to the first Trump administration’s COVID vaccine program Operation Warp Speed—the program aims to increase testing for heavy metals and other contaminants.
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1 month ago |
scientificamerican.com | Tanya Lewis
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have made it their mission to slash funding and staff at federal agencies, and so far, this has perhaps been most damaging to the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. As soon as he was inaugurated on January 20, Trump signed an executive order halting all foreign aid for 90 days. Weeks later the New York Times reported his administration planned to downsize the agency from more than 10,000 workers to 290.
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RT @CAPublicHealth: CDPH reports new possible human cases of bird flu among Central Valley individuals. All cases had contact with infected…
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