INSANE: 14 | Vintage Vibes

FDA to discuss easing restrictions on peptides despite safety concerns

Committee will meet in July to discuss peptides now sold in gray market despite limited evidence of safety and efficacy

The Guardian - US · Jun 26

The Most Effective Community Mental Health Clinic Model Just Received More Than $223 Million in New Federal Funding

$223.1 million in new federal funding was announced June 17 for CCBHC community mental health clinics. Here's how this model reduces ER visits and what it means for access to care.

Medical Daily · Jun 26

Senator Ron Wyden accuses US health agency of plan to deport more than 500 migrant children

Wyden says in letter addressed to Robert F Kennedy Jr that HHS is preparing an ‘unprecedented legal framework’

The Guardian - US · Jun 25

For the first time ever, no young women in England died of cervical cancer. In the U.S., RFK Jr.'s vaccine skepticism stalls HPV progress

Zero deaths, 200 lives saved, and 61% vaccinated. Without the vaccine, 23 women would have died, but in the U.S., RFK Jr. still won’t call the vaccine safe.

Fortune · Jun 23

The Five-State Smackdown: How Colorado, Iowa, and Tennessee Lost Their Secret War Against Unhealthy SNAP Foods

US federal judge struck down five state SNAP pilot bans on fizzy drinks and sweets, ruling the Trump administration overstepped legal authority and violated its own rules.

International Business Times UK · Jun 23

Hantavirus quarantine ends for Americans held for six weeks in Nebraska

The US health department said the enforced 42-day quarantine was necessary to protect the public

The Guardian - US · Jun 23

Medication abortion: Decisions from federal courts, the FDA or Trump’s Department of Justice could try to end access via telehealth

Roughly two-thirds of Americans end their pregnancies by taking two abortion medications – misoprostol and mifepristone. Because these safe, effective medications can be prescribed via telehealth, without an in-office visit, they are how most patients terminate pregnancies in states that ban abortion.

The Conversation · Jun 23

Trump team delays health funding with new screening process that uses AI to check for words like ‘culture’ and ‘gender’: report

A Democratic senator said the new process is ‘undermining America’s edge in research’ and ‘denying resources and services to communities because of politics’

The Independent UK · Jun 22

The raw milkman

Top officials are championing the dangerous industry’s expansion rather than curbing the danger

Salon · Jun 22

‘It’s not science, it’s coercion’: health experts decry RFK Jr order on hantavirus quarantine

Kennedy overrides CDC order saying American who came into contact with hantavirus can self-quarantine

The Guardian - US · Jun 20