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Upcoming Conference: Public health and technology -- NextMed Health, March 30-Aug 2

Thu, 2025-03-06 08:56 — mike kraft

Conference alert: NextMed Health is a unique cross-disciplinary international conference exploring the use of accelerating technologies, and their potential to improve the future of health and medicine, including community public health, worldwide.  It is being held  March 30-April 2nd at the historic Hotel del Coronado located on the beach in San Diego, California.

Sessions include  the use of technology to improve “Public, Global and Planetary Health,” and “Accelerating Health Access and Equality.” Among the distinguished faculty speakers are famed epidemiologist Larry Brilliant of the Skoll Foundation, Prof. Chris Mason of Cornell Weill, and Eric Topol of Scripps. Learn more at NextMed Health 2025 and use registration code 'Resilient' to save $500. 

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Reference Site: Global Compendium of Knowledge on COVID-19

Fri, 2023-04-21 11:15 — mike kraft
Global Compendium of Knowledge on COVID-19 The Compendium stores over 140 documents and has recorded over 300 visits to the most popular ones. The Compendium is maintained and expanded to reflect the most relevant experiences and learnings from COVID-19 vaccination.
The Global Compendium of Country Knowledge on COVID-19 vaccination is now available on TechNet21.  ...
 
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    Trump administration escalates efforts to take back $20B from nonprofits involved in climate issue

    Fri, 2025-03-14 17:55 — mike kraft
    Trump officials escalate fight to take back $20B in climate money The Justice Department is demanding documents from nonprofits that were awarded the money through the Inflation Reduction Act. Jean Chemnick Politico
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    RFK Jr. claims measles can be trated with vitamin A but many experts disagree

    Fri, 2025-03-14 10:51 — mike kraft
    RFK Jr. claims measles can be treated with vitamin A, linked to poor diet. Here's what science says RFK Jr. has claimed measles can be treated with vitamin A and that severe infection is linked to poor diet. But many experts who spoke with ABC News disagreed. ABC News ABC News
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    U.S. Eviornmental Protection Agency chief announced rollback of climate change and other regulations

    Thu, 2025-03-13 09:44 — mike kraft
    EPA head says he'll roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including rules on climate change The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a series of actions to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles. AP News
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    Trump administration stops greenhouse gas reduction projects affecting communities, miliary cancels its climate change studies

    Wed, 2025-03-12 12:52 — mike kraft

    Trump administration claws back $20 billion in climate funds

    WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has ended $20 billion in funding for greenhouse gas reduction projects in a move that climate advocates and Democrats say illegally seizes money allocated for clean energy and transportation for disadvantaged communities.
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    US aid cuts weaken the fight against maleria, the deadliest disease in Africa

    Mon, 2025-03-10 20:10 — mike kraft
    No disease is deadlier in Africa than malaria. Trump's US aid cuts weaken the fight against it Malaria season begins this month in a large part of Africa. No disease is deadlier on the continent, especially for children. AP News
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    Texas measles outbreak: doctors try to counter RFK Jr misinformation about vitamin A

    Mon, 2025-03-10 19:51 — mike kraft

    Doctors push back as parents embrace Kennedy and vitamin A in Texas measles outbreak

    March 8 (Reuters) - As a measles outbreak spreads across West Texas, Dr. Ana Montanez is fighting an uphill battle to convince some parents that vitamin A - touted by vaccine critics as effective against the highly contagious virus - will not protect their children.
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    U.S. Federal judge blocks Trump admiistration from cutting NIH research funding

    Thu, 2025-03-06 08:49 — mike kraft

    US judge bars Trump administration from cutting NIH research funding

    BOSTON, March 5 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal grant funding for research that universities and Democratic-led states warn would lead to layoffs, lab closures and a curtailment of scientific and medical studies.
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    RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment on HHS decisions

    Mon, 2025-03-03 12:33 — mike kraft

    Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a document Friday proposing to strip public participation from much of the business his department conducts. The move comes during a time of major upheaval across federal health agencies, and as the public waits to see how Kennedy will enact his pledge of “radical transparency” at the department.

    The statement, placed in the Federal Register, said HHS would rescind its longtime practice of giving members of the public a chance to comment on the agency’s plans....

     

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