Author: Claudinne Miller
How conspiracy theories infiltrated the doctor’s office
Wired Every day, physicians and therapists work to keep their patients safe. Medical rumors, misinformation, and an online web of disreputable sources aren’t making their jobs any easier. As anyone who has googled their symptoms and convinced themselves that they’ve got a brain tumor will attest, the internet makes it very easy to self-(mis)diagnose your […]
Nov 12, 2025
How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
STAT As Tracy Beth Høeg and Vinay Prasad seek to restore public trust, some fear they will undermine public health instead. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he does not want to take vaccines away from Americans. But at a closed-door meeting of Food and Drug Administration vaccine scientists in September, a top […]
Nov 12, 2025
I’m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too
STAT As I stepped into line to pick up my badge for the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) conference last weekend in Austin, Texas, a gregarious man approached holding two tall plastic tubes he said contained “clots” from Covid vaccinated bodies. After 36 years in the Air Force, he told me, he’d been pushed out for […]
Nov 12, 2025
Northern Lights Illuminate Skies Above North America
NYT The northern lights could be seen in skies as far south as Texas late Tuesday and early Wednesday after the sun emitted masses of charged particles that disrupted the Earth’s magnetic field — and created a dazzling display.
Nov 12, 2025
South Carolina: DPH Confirms 8 new Measles Cases in Upstate Outbreak, Bringing Outbreak Total to 43
SC DPH The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is reporting eight new cases of measles in the state since Friday. The total number of cases in South Carolina now related to the Upstate outbreak is 43, and the total number reported to DPH this year is 46. Six of the eight cases are household members […]
Nov 12, 2025
RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Group to Revisit Childhood Shots, Hepatitis B
Bloomberg The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s key vaccine panel will reconvene in December to again weigh changes to the long-standing childhood immunization schedule. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, will meet on Dec. 4 and 5, according to a Federal Register notice posted on Wednesday. The panel will discuss vaccine safety, the childhood […]
Nov 12, 2025
US vaccine panel may vote on hepatitis B shots in December
Retuers The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee is scheduled to meet on December 4 and 5, and could vote on policy concerning shots for hepatitis B, a Federal Register notice from the agency showed on Wednesday. The members of the panel, selected by health secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert F. […]
Nov 12, 2025
CDC’s Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month
MedPageToday Other agenda items for December meeting include the childhood immunization schedule. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will meet Dec. 4 and 5, according to a Federal Register notice that indicates that recommendation votes may be scheduled for hepatitis B vaccines. Other items on the agenda include the childhood and adolescent immunization schedule and […]
Nov 12, 2025
With an absent CDC and mismatched ‘subclade K’ flu strain, experts face upcoming season with uncertainty
CIDRAP Earlier this month, a group of Canadian researchers published early influenza data for the 2025-26 season, issuing a warning: There has been an observed mismatch with the seasonal influenza vaccine strain and what is emerging as the dominant flu strain this season, H3N2 subclade K. Based on early reports from Japan and the United […]
Nov 12, 2025
Common-Cold Coronavirus Could be the Key to a Better COVID-19 Vaccine
Cornell Medicine Prior exposure to coronaviruses that cause ordinary colds can boost the immune system’s ability to attack a vulnerable site on the COVID-19-causing coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. The finding suggests a new vaccination strategy that might provide broader and more durable protection against SARS-CoV-2 strains […]
Nov 12, 2025