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Podcast: A critical take on the MAHA children's health report

1 week ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -29:41Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Today’s podcast turns to an issue that worries every parent and grandparent I know — what’s happening to our kids’ health. A little over a week ago, the Trump regime’s Make America Healthy Commission issued a report entitled “Making Our Children Healthy Again.” It immediately drew fire from the press for citing non-existent studies.
Picking on trans youth

1 week ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

Mehmet Oz, the television doctor now in charge of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, yesterday launched an investigation into hospitals that conduct sexual transition surgeries for minors. He gave hospitals 30 days to respond with details about their informed consent procedures, parental involvement and clinical guidelines. He also demanded documentation of adverse outcomes “including cases involving regret,” and reports on the revenue and profits made from the operations.
Corporations and kids' health

1 week ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

Last week’s Make American Healthy Again Commission report on childhood health was clearly the product of the left side of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s brain. Other than its vaccine section, it echoed arguments that progressive physician-scientists and public interest groups have been making for decades: Overconsumption of ultra-processed, nutritionally inadequate food exposes kids to harmful additives and contributes mightily to the obesity and diabetes epidemic among children.
Podcast: Behind the phony Medicaid work requirement

3 weeks ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

While GoozNews posts and podcasts are free to all, I depend on the support of readers to pay expenses. To support my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Republicans in Congress plan to gut Medicaid, a program passed in 1965 that today provides health insurance for more than 70 million low income Americans.
Pharma investors shrug off Trump threats

3 weeks ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

“Spin straw into gold,” King Trump I ordered and pharmaceutical stocks soared. Investors knew drug firms already had the gold and there was no way HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., last seen swimming with his grandkids in contaminated Rock Creek, could carry out the order. I am offering just a quick take this morning on the inanity of the president’s executive order demanding drug companies lower their prices or face the consequences.
Over 13 million to lose health insurance under GOP plan

3 weeks ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

The House leadership late Sunday released the GOP’s plan for cutting health care spending to pay for tax breaks for the rich and large corporations. It whacks both Medicaid and the expanded subsidies that make individual plans sold on the Obamacare exchanges affordable. While they pitched their plan as a modest program designed to appeal to Republican moderates, there is no way they can generate more than $700 billion in savings without making major cuts to both programs.
Podcast: The education of a whistleblower

1 month ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner |Carl Elliott

Washington is awash in legal and ethical wrongdoing, especially at the nation’s health-related agencies. To pay for tax cuts for corporations and the rich, the Trump regime’s appointees are laying off thousands of workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. Aid to treat and prevent global diseases has been abandoned. Plans are afoot to slash funding for the nation’s researchers.
The rightward march of Dr. Vinay Prasad

1 month ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

By appointing Dr. Vinay Prasad to run the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, the Trump regime has installed another prominent opponent of Covid-era public health policies to a key position at the Food and Drug Administration. CBER is responsible for ensuring the safety and efficacy of vaccines, biologic drugs, gene therapies and the blood supply.
HHS axes human subject protectors

1 month ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner

In 1999, 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger eagerly signed up for a clinical trial testing a promising therapy for his rare genetic disorder. The Arizona resident’s dream was to lead a normal life that wouldn’t require him swallowing four dozen pills a day simply to stay alive. He traveled to the University of Pennsylvania where physician-scientists were conducting an early experiment in gene therapy. They told Gelsinger they would implant a working gene for his mutated one using a viral vector.
Podcast: An interview with Gardiner Harris, author of No More Tears

1 month ago | gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner |Gardiner Harris

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -43:41Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. On Friday, I published my review of former New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris’ new book, No More Tears: the dark secrets of Johnson and Johnson. Shortly after writing that essay, I interviewed Gardiner for this GoozNews podcast. I’m still working out the kinks in producing a professional quality podcast.