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Microsoft scrambles to quell fury around its new AI data centers
Justine Calma, The Verge
It looks like the wave of campaigns against data centers are getting under big tech companies' skin - and Microsoft is the latest giant to promise to address frustrations on the ground in communities around their data centers. The company announced a five-poi…
Jan 13, 2026, 3:33 PM
CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled
Unmc.edu
Washington Post The Trump administration took unprecedented steps to recommend fewer vaccines for children without extensive consultations with career scientists. Vaccine experts at the Centers for…
Jan 10, 2026, 5:07 AM
Senator Cassidy Has More Words, But No Actions, For RFK Jr.
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
Rinse, lather, repeat. That is supposed to be the self-serving message on the back of a shampoo bottle, but it can easily be applied to Senator Bill Cassidy’s response to all the bullshit RFK Jr. continues to pull when it comes to vaccines. The last time we s…
Jan 10, 2026, 3:39 AM
I didn't realize my drinking was unhealthy until I tracked it — using the old government guidelines
Julia Pugachevsky, Business Insider
According to the new dietary guidelines, Americans are encouraged to "drink less" without strict guidance on what constitutes as moderate drinking.
Jan 9, 2026, 2:00 PM
Trump administration changes federal guidelines on alcohol consumption
Mason Leib, ABC News
The Trump administration has changed federal guidance on alcohol consumption as part of its updated U.S. dietary guidelines.
Jan 8, 2026, 1:04 AM
MAHA’s latest offensive
Caitlin Dewey, Vox
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. In two weeks, I’ll bundle my daughter into her snowsuit and trek over to the pediatrician’s office, where a …
Jan 7, 2026, 4:05 PM
RFK Jr., CDC Alter Childhood Vaccine Schedule To Mimic Denmark’s
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
The Trump administration’s war on vaccines continues, it seems. We’ve already written extensively about all the bullshit RFK Jr. is pulling when it comes to public health around vaccines. From his dismantling the CDC’s ACIP committee and rebuilding it full of…
Jan 7, 2026, 4:02 AM
Doctor Visits for Flu Hit Highest Level in Almost 30 Years
Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American
Almost one in 10 people who visited a doctor in the U.S. in the week ending on December 27 were there for flulike symptoms, according to new data
Jan 6, 2026, 3:00 PM
More Than 40 Million People Use ChatGPT Daily for Healthcare Advice, OpenAI Claims
Ece Yildirim, Gizmodo.com
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be a bigger player in healthcare. First, they need regulators to play ball.
Jan 5, 2026, 7:20 PM
US drops the number of vaccines it recommends for every child
ALI SWENSON and LAURAN NEERGAARD, Yahoo Entertainment
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child -- leaving other immunizations, such as flu...
Jan 5, 2026, 7:09 PM
Should the U.S. model its vaccine policy on Denmark's? Experts say we're nothing alike
Maria Godoy, NPR
The Trump administration wants to revamp U.S. childhood vaccination recommendations to align with some other peer nations, including one tiny country in northern Europe.
Dec 26, 2025, 11:00 AM
Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that
FATIMA HUSSEIN, Yahoo Entertainment
Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died, according ...
Dec 23, 2025, 12:05 PM
U.S. Plan to Drop Some Childhood Vaccines to Align with Denmark Will Endanger Children, Experts Say
Lauren J. Young, Tanya Lewis, Scientific American
The U.S. reportedly plans to overhaul the country’s childhood vaccine schedule. The move could set public health back decades, experts say
Dec 20, 2025, 1:00 PM
Immunological sin: how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity
Amanda B. Keener, Nature.com
Researchers are striving to understand the impact a phenomenon known as original antigenic sin has on immunity to the virus.
Dec 17, 2025, 12:00 AM
WATCH: New study shows COVID-19 vaccines benefit pregnant women and newborns
ABC News
ABC News' Dr. Darien Sutton discusses a new study that shows COVID-19 vaccine before or during pregnancy led to better health outcomes for mothers and newborns.
Dec 16, 2025, 6:58 PM
Getting a COVID Vaccine while Pregnant Slashes Risk of Premature Birth, Major New Study Finds
Claire Cameron, Scientific American
Pregnant people who receive a COVID vaccine are 60 percent less likely to experience severe disease and around 30 percent less likely to give birth prematurely, according to new research
Dec 15, 2025, 4:00 PM
How Rising Rates of Uninsured Children Will Increase Pediatric Cancer Deaths
Eve Lu, Scientific American
A recent analysis showed the rate of uninsured children in the U.S. grew from 2022 to 2024. Experts say this could lead to more pediatric cancer deaths.
Dec 15, 2025, 2:00 PM
Measles Outbreaks Accelerate as U.S. Inches Closer to a Disease Tipping Point
Claire Cameron, Scientific American
More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the country toward losing its measles-free status by early next year
Dec 11, 2025, 4:40 PM
Measles Outbreak Nears Grim Milestone as Hundreds Quarantine in South Carolina
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
What happens when your country's public health system is run by anti-vaccine activists?
Dec 10, 2025, 6:40 PM
What are parents to do as doctors clash with Trump administration over vaccines?
LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE, Yahoo Entertainment
It’s normal for parents, or anyone, to have questions about vaccinations -- but what happens if your pediatrician urges a shot that’s under attack by the...
Dec 9, 2025, 10:29 PM
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
Paul Krugman, Substack.com
Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe
Dec 9, 2025, 12:16 PM
Appointment of controversial FDA official rocking agency like "an atom bomb," scientists there say
cbsnews.com, Biztoc.com
The Trump administration's elevation of a vaccine skeptic to lead a high-profile office within the Food and Drug Administration is raising alarm among multiple senior FDA officials, who told CBS News the appointment will harm the agency's reputation as a reli…
Dec 7, 2025, 6:38 PM
Sick in a Hospital Town
Ginger Thompson, Doris Burke, ProPublica
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital — the dominant political and economic institution of Albany, Georgia — is the story of American health care.
Dec 7, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica
As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.
Dec 6, 2025, 10:00 AM