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US pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying it has ‘ignored the science’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · United States

US pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying it has ‘ignored the science’

51% Center coverage: 123 sources

The Real Opioid Crisis Isn’t Prescriptions—It’s Prohibition

Purdue Pharma · Phoenix

The Real Opioid Crisis Isn’t Prescriptions—It’s Prohibition

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

Purdue Pharma recently reached a $7.4 billion settlement with all 50 states and the District of Columbia over its alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis through aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Regardless of the case's merits, this landmark deal highlights what can happen when an expedient narrative replaces data-driven public policy. Nowhere is the gap between narrative and data more clear than in West Virginia, the hardest-hit state in th…See the Story

Free Webinar: 2025 Arizona Legislative Session Wrap – A Public Health Perspective – AZ Public Health Association

Phoenix, Arizona · Phoenix

Free Webinar: 2025 Arizona Legislative Session Wrap – A Public Health Perspective – AZ Public Health Association

July 8, 2025 12:00 PM Join Vitalyst and Will Humble, Executive Director of the Arizona Public Health Association, for an overview of this year’s legislative session. We will discuss the wins and the challenges for community health and Arizona as a state. Arizona’s 2025 Legislative Session: What Passed, What Didn’t, and What It Means for Public Health The 2025 Arizona Legislative Session has wrapped, and it brought wins for public health, protect…Read Article

Arizona’s 2025 Legislative Session: What Passed, What Didn’t, and What It Means for Public Health – AZ Public Health Association

The 2025 Arizona Legislative Session has wrapped, and it brought wins for public health, protections from harmful policies (with Hobbs’ vetoes), and some investments in behavioral health, access to childcare and other one-time public health investments. View Our PowerPoint Summarizing the 2025 Legislative Session As always there were also missed opportunities to address pressing public health problems like firearm violence – but all in all I’d s…Health · Phoenix Read Article

APS Rate Hikes & the Corporation Commission’s Industry Capture are Undermining Health – AZ Public Health Association

Electricity is already the 2nd second-highest expense for many households, trailing only rent and surpassing even food. Constant rate hikes from our monopoly utilities like APS is making electricity more and more expensive and is seriously damaging the social determinants of health in Arizona. Last week APS filed yet another rate increase request along with a proposal to make their return on equity even higher for their stock shareholders – prop…Phoenix, Arizona · Phoenix Read Article

US judge blocks Defense Department from slashing federal research funding

68% Center coverage: 156 sources

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal research funding provided to universities by the U.S. Department of Defense.US Politics · United States See the Story

What Public Health Professionals Need to Know About Education, Advocacy & Lobbying – AZ Public Health Association

Properly navigating the complicated landscape of public health advocacy is more important than ever these days given Secretary Kennedy’s actions. As a public health system, we need to engage in advocacy to tell our story – but do it in a way that doesn’t get us in trouble by violating IRS and other lobbying restrictions for nonprofits and political jurisdictions. Thankfully, the Network for Public Health Law ‘s recently published a Q & A summari…Health · Phoenix Read Article

Kennedy names 8 vaccine committee replacements, including COVID shot critic

60% Center coverage: 241 sources

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.US Politics · United States See the Story

What’s Actually in that House Budget Bill? – AZ Public Health Association

On May 22, the House of Representatives passed the “Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1) by a 215-214 vote. This reconciliation bill proposes changes to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, food nutrition programs, and the nation’s debt limit, among other things. If this bill were signed into law, several potential impacts to states include: Increased coverage loss for noncompliance with work requirements. Future challenges for states to fund their s…Phoenix, Arizona · Phoenix Read Article

Who’s in charge? CDC’s leadership ‘crisis’ apparent amid new COVID-19 vaccine guidance

69% Center coverage: 48 sources

WASHINGTON (AP) — There was a notable absence last week when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a 58-second video that the government would no longer endorse the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children or pregnant women. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the person who typically signs off on federal vaccine recommendations — was nowhere to be seen. The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-ye…Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · California See the Story

Arizona Still Has Work to Do On Tobacco Control – AZ Public Health Association

This week, the American Lung Association released its latest “Up in Smoke” report, a national look at how states are doing when it comes to reducing tobacco use and protecting people from secondhand smoke. Arizona’s grades are mixed. While we’ve made progress in some areas, we still have serious gaps to address. The report grades states in five areas: funding for tobacco prevention, smokefree air laws, access to cessation services, tobacco taxe…Phoenix, Arizona · Phoenix Read Article

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