Tag: American Academy of Pediatrics

CDC is “in the ICU right now” former officials say

Volume 406, Issue 10508
13 September 2025
WORLD REPORT  Senior officials say HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is eviscerating the CDC. Washington Correspondent Susan Jaffe reports.    
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) implosion was months in the making, senior officials tell The Lancet after they resigned in protest following the dismissal of CDC Director Susan Monarez by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. They describe a gutted agency so damaged that it might not be able to fulfil its core mission to protect Americans from public health threats.  An HHS spokeswoman called their comments “the gripes of disgruntled former employees.”  [Continued here.]
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US health experts divided on social media age restrictions

27 May 2023
Volume 401, Issue 10390 

WORLD REPORT  Some medical associations support restrictions on social media use to protect adolescent’s health, while others focus on making companies provide safer platforms. 

Laws intended to protect adolescents from the harms of social media are spreading across the USA but, among some of the nation’s leading medical and public health associations, there is not yet a consensus on limiting social media access for young people. Nearly two dozen states are considering legislation. Several have already enacted a patchwork of age restrictions and partial bans. [Continued here.]
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US Children’s Health Insurance Program in jeopardy

 Volume 390, Number 10114   
 23/30 December 2017

 

WORLD REPORT    Without adequate federal funding, CHIP is on the verge of collapse in several states. Susan Jaffe, The Lancet’s Washington correspondent, reports.

“Whoever would have thought that health care for children—that has support on both sides of the aisle—would be in this situation?” asked Deborah Oswalt, executive director of the Virginia Health Care Foundation.  [full story here]

 

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