"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( #CDC) has long served as the cornerstone of the US #PublicHealth system, combining technical expertise, evidence-based policy recommendations, and high-quality health information. Yet, it is undergoing profound weakening by the #TrumpAdministration, including major funding cuts, the dismissal and resignation of experienced senior staff, and the erosion of its scientific independence." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2840162
#ImpeachRFKJr

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( #CDC) has long served as the cornerstone of the US #PublicHealth system, combining technical expertise, evidence-based policy recommendations, and high-quality health information. Yet, it is undergoing profound weakening by the #TrumpAdministration, including major funding cuts, the dismissal and resignation of experienced senior staff, and the erosion of its scientific independence." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2840162
#ImpeachRFKJr

📣 #Fitness Inspiration: Week 3 of 6 in our Inclusive HIIT Class in Malden!

🔥 Our participants crushed it! This week’s highlight reel is packed with dynamic new moves:
💥Partner Slam Balls
👟Agility Ladder Drills
💪🏾Resistance Band work

🎯Building the power and strength to knock out Sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss) and healthy aging.

👏🏽The best part? The camaraderie, fun, and #community we build every week!

#healthequity #northshorema #Fitness #Gym #Workout #PublicHealth #fun #strengthtraining

Japan Sees Record Number Treated for Heat Stroke in Hottest-Ever Summer

More than 100,000 people were sent to hospitals due to heat stroke in Japan between May 1 and Sept. 28, according to preliminary data from the nation’s…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #asia #August #ConsumerDiscretionary #europe #government #green #healthcare #JapanTopics #news #PublicHealth #Switzerland #worldhealthorganization
https://www.alojapan.com/1382485/japan-sees-record-number-treated-for-heat-stroke-in-hottest-ever-summer/

Look, we’ve been here before.

My grandpa smoked two packs a day for most of my memory of him. Everyone did. Doctors literally prescribed cigarettes for stress. They said it was good for you. Made you look cool. Helped you lose weight. Whatever.

He felt fine until he didn’t.

That’s exactly what’s happening with COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it. People are catching this thing two, three times a year and acting like it’s nothing. Just a cold. Just the sniffles. Meanwhile, their blood vessels are getting shredded. Their organs are taking hits. Their brains are leaking.

But sure, tell yourself it’s fine."

https://www.dilatemag.com/post/covid-isn-t-a-cold-it-s-cigarettes-all-over-again

#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

Japan Sees Record Number Treated for Heat Stroke in Hottest-Ever Summer

More than 100,000 people were sent to hospitals due to heat stroke in Japan between May 1 and Sept. 28, according to preliminary data from the nation’s…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #asia #August #ConsumerDiscretionary #europe #government #green #healthcare #JapanTopics #news #PublicHealth #Switzerland #worldhealthorganization
https://www.alojapan.com/1382485/japan-sees-record-number-treated-for-heat-stroke-in-hottest-ever-summer/

Look, we’ve been here before.

My grandpa smoked two packs a day for most of my memory of him. Everyone did. Doctors literally prescribed cigarettes for stress. They said it was good for you. Made you look cool. Helped you lose weight. Whatever.

He felt fine until he didn’t.

That’s exactly what’s happening with COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it. People are catching this thing two, three times a year and acting like it’s nothing. Just a cold. Just the sniffles. Meanwhile, their blood vessels are getting shredded. Their organs are taking hits. Their brains are leaking.

But sure, tell yourself it’s fine."

https://www.dilatemag.com/post/covid-isn-t-a-cold-it-s-cigarettes-all-over-again

#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

"There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers (metastatic progression)."

https://buds.org.uk/covid-and-cancer/

#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

"It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, 'We knew how to protect you and we didn't do it. We have access to a technology to prevent airborne disease, something that millions of our ancestors and millions of people around the world today would kill for, and we refuse to use it,'" she said while pointing to her mask.

https://www.today.com/health/violet-affleck-un-address-covid-children-rcna233387

#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

"Despite years of congressional hearings, lawsuits, academic research, whistleblowers and testimony from parents and teenagers about the dangers of Instagram, Meta’s wildly popular app has failed to protect children from harm, with 'woefully ineffective' safety measures, according to a new report from former employee and whistleblower Arturo Bejar and four nonprofit groups."

https://apnews.com/article/instagram-teens-safety-meta-bejar-13276348cde2dcc1ee94c66227ea25dc

#PublicHealth #Meta #instagram #ChildrensHealth #SocialMedia #cybersecurity

"It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, 'We knew how to protect you and we didn't do it. We have access to a technology to prevent airborne disease, something that millions of our ancestors and millions of people around the world today would kill for, and we refuse to use it,'" she said while pointing to her mask.

https://www.today.com/health/violet-affleck-un-address-covid-children-rcna233387

#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

The U.S. has long lagged behind other wealthy countries in reducing its stillbirth rate.

Now a new five-year, $37 million NIH consortium will prioritize this public health issue. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was intimately tied to this,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nih-stillbirth-prevention-consortium?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NIH #Pregnancy #Health #Women #PublicHealth #Science #Research

#Trump #EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of #Water were summoned to a “town hall” meeting this week & told to pause the publication of most #research, pending a review.

#PublicHealth #Climate #pollution #science #law #EnvironmentalLaw
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/20/epa-scientists-research-publications/

The #Agriculture Dept report, Household #FoodSecurity in the #UnitedStates, quantifies the share of households considered “#FoodInsecure” & “very low food secure,” a subset with a more severe designation of need that applied to 5.1% of households in 2023. It analyzes those categories by #state, #race & #ethnicity. Rates are much higher among #Black & #Latino households than among #white households.

#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy

In a sharp break with precedent, #Trump has aggressively contested sources of government #data that he thinks casts his policies in a negative light. Last month, after a weak #jobs report, he fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor #Statistics, claiming with no evidence that the data was “rigged.”

#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

The #Agriculture Department said in a statement that the report had become “overly politicized, & upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”🤯

The department will issue a final report next month covering 2024, based on a survey from last year, but will cease fielding future surveys, according to the statement.

#PublicHealth #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

This is crazy.

#Trump Admin to Stop Measuring #FoodInsecurity

The move strips the government of its main gauge of #hunger in America, & will impede efforts to track the impact of #aid cuts [that’s the plan].

#PublicHealth #Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/trump-hunger-report-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started
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As federal agencies review their guidance on fluoridation and the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending a decadeslong public health success story.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-drinking-water-rfk-jr-michigan-cdc-hhs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Michigan #Water #Government