Disease Prevention and Health Reseach

What could happen if the US ends global health funding?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01191-z

This I would call a lightly paywalled article because author's email (to request a full pdf) will come to you with a ~10 second internet search.

 

"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.
Major physicians and public health groups criticized the move to oust all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices."

RFK Jr. ousts ACIP group that advises CDC on vaccines | AP News

this new HHS leader will without oversight etc. refill this committee before next meeting in 2 weeks. The Orwell stuff is that RFK Jr. will re-establish public confidence in vaccine science. He may appoint people not dis-barred medical doctors and not profiteering from internet wellness businesses. I only mention those because his earlier appointees have ticked those boxes.

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There are other louder Trump things happening now and it would be 'ill' to miss the froth at HHS.

 

Aluminum in vaccines has been shown safe in earlier studies, but not as large as this one:

Large study squashes anti-vaccine talking points about aluminum - Ars Technica

Retrospective study of million health records. If wondering why they did not look at thimerosal also, my guess is tht it is not in Danmark vaccines. Or rarely ever?

 

Many readers would know that fetal mitochondria all come from mother's egg. In some cases those mitochondria are not right. It is now possible to swap in from a different donor

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5468304/mitochondria-disease-gene-donation-three-parents

Leading to offspring with one father and approximately two mothers.

 

Fentanyl is a big problem except when it isn't:

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5468535/fentanyl-trump-addiction-funding

“The money currently being withheld accounts for roughly half of the funds allocated by Congress for the OD2A program, which supports fentanyl response efforts in 49 states, the District of Columbia, as well as dozens of city, county and territorial public health departments.”

“The CDC staffers said it appears the funding interruption is being caused by bureaucratic confusion involving the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cost-cutting effort and the Office of Management and Budget, which are both scrutinizing OD2A grants before money is issued.”