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As gun violence persists, CDC analysis is hamstrung
A couple of month in the past, a gunman sprayed greater than 500 bullets throughout the CDC campus in Atlanta, killing one particular person. Days later, the Trump administration fired greater than 150 of the company’s violence and harm prevention specialists. “These are researchers and practitioners with distinctive experience in violence prevention that doesn’t exist elsewhere within the federal authorities,” stated Tom Simon, who retired from the CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention in April.
The continued want for such analysis has by no means been clearer. The U.S. has seen 47 faculty shootings to date in 2025, based on a CNN tracker. The latest occurred final week, when three highschool college students had been killed in Colorado on the identical day that right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot lifeless whereas talking at a college in Utah. STAT’s Liz Cooney has extra on what the analysis panorama seems to be like with out the CDC staffers who’ve been working to stem violence across the nation.
Cholera deaths proceed to extend worldwide
Whereas leaders of federal well being businesses within the U.S. revive decades-settled questions about vaccination, the WHO lately reported that in 2024, cholera deaths elevated worldwide for the second yr in a row. Reported instances rose by 5% in comparison with 2023, and deaths rose by 50%.
The worldwide well being company cited battle and displacement, local weather change, and long-term issues with water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure as contributing components. Nearly all instances (98%) occurred in Africa, the Center East, and Asia, based on the WHO. There was additionally a scarcity of cholera vaccines final yr, as STAT reported. “Cholera is a uncared for illness,” Abdou Salam Gueye of the WHO Africa Area advised Annalisa Merelli final fall. “And it’s uncared for for uncared for populations which might be poor and don’t make a great market.”
HHS proclaims contract for autism-vaccine research
The CDC introduced final week its intent to fund among the many first Trump administration-solicited analysis on a debunked hyperlink between vaccines and autism. The contract — which helps analysis to “examine the affiliation between vaccination and autism prevalence” — will likely be awarded to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ought to the contract be finalized.
The brand new analysis comes on the behest of well being secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has a protracted historical past of arguing in opposition to vaccine use and linking them — opposite to mainstream proof — to autism. Learn extra from STAT’s Daniel Payne.
How hospitals are bracing for Medicaid cuts
In response to the historic Medicaid cuts enacted by Republicans earlier this yr, hospitals have arrange struggle rooms to plan their subsequent monetary strikes and brainstorm modern options, whereas bracing for slipping income. The regulation — which can go into impact in 2027 — will finally reduce almost $1 trillion in Medicaid spending over the subsequent decade, including new work necessities and creating limits on massive federal funding streams states use to help their applications. “We’re in a bit little bit of an existential disaster right here,” Matthew Prepare dinner of the Kids’s Hospital Affiliation advised Daniel Payne.
However there’s a distinction right here between the hospital haves and have-nots, based on almost a dozen hospital leaders and advisers who spoke with Daniel. Whereas some establishments are contemplating what companies could possibly be reduce or consolidated, others see a singular alternative to increase into new applied sciences or care fashions. Learn extra from Daniel on the struggle room discussions.
From the president and CEO of Deliberate Parenthood
“Nicely, guess what — we’re not going anyplace.”
That’s what Alexis McGill Johnson of Deliberate Parenthood Federation needed to say in a press name on Friday, the morning after an appeals courtroom reversed a federal decide’s choice, permitting the Trump administration to dam Medicaid funds to the community of clinics whereas authorized challenges proceed. “Trump and his rubber stamps in Congress ought to know that we’re not backing down,” McGill Johnson continued. The AP has extra on the choice.
What we’re studying
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In 2022, the title ‘monkeypox’ was rejected as inapt. Now the U.S. is reviving it, NPR
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Texas drops lawsuit in opposition to physician accused of illegally offering care to transgender youth, Texas Tribune
- First Opinion: ‘The Pitt’ precisely reveals emergency care, however misses one crucial element, STAT
- Trump is shutting down the struggle on most cancers, New York Occasions
- FDA leaders shifting to desert advisory committee critiques of particular new medication, STAT
