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Today I spoke with Jeremy Faust, MD about the impact of Trump's first 100 days on health and medicine. Dr Faust is a frontline doctor in the ER at Brigham and Women's Hospital, an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and the writer of the brilliant Substack, Inside Medicine.
We talk about the attacks on the CDC; the status of frozen or cancelled research at NIH; and general disarray at FDA. We also cover what Secretary RFK Jr intends with a promised study on the root causes of autism; whether or not he’s cancelled the largest women’s health research project to date; and the impact of withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Also: There is a chance Congress votes to dramatically cut Medicaid funding and Dr. Faust explains the impact that would have on communities across the nation. I ask him what you and I can do to protect ourselves now. Spoiler Alert: call your members of Congress and urge them not to vote for deep cuts at our health agencies.
Health and medicine shouldn’t be politicized but in our current environment, of course, they are. Whether it’s HHS’ decision to remove a gun violence webpage advisory or RFK’s outrageous and unfounded claim that Biden’s HHS “Became a Collaborator in Child Trafficking” both story choice and framing vary dramatically from outlets on the left and the right. You can see the difference in coverage with Ground News. Their app and website gather sources from around the world and across the political spectrum, making it easy to see how different sources cover the same story — a great tool in the information war. GroundNews is offering the News Not Noise community 40% off their all-access vantage subscription plan. To subscribe, go to GroundNews.com/NNN
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