"The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office."
ProPublica
The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds
Lawmakers requested the report after a 2023 ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation revealed that the FDA had received hundreds of com...
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"Just in the past six months, we've had two patients in the ICU with Hib. One child unfortunately succumbed at 4 months of age. No vaccines. One month ago, I was on call, and another patient also came into the ICU, a 2½-year-old, never vaccinated, Hib again. Abscesses in the brain, seizures, brain dead. Quote, unquote, mother's words: ‘Please give my child every vaccine you can.’ "
WUSF
Doctors sound alarm on meningitis cases at workshop on ending school vaccine mandates
There were speakers for and against keeping mandates during public comment. Doctors say one shot that could become optional prevents Hib, a deadly ...
 #PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #ChildrensHealth #prevention #florida
"By targeting diversity language, however, the administration has been able to make cuts to programs that benefit children with disabilities without specifically rolling back special education. In addition to the deafblind initiatives, the Education Department said it had slashed money for more than two dozen similar programs, including a school for the blind."
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade
A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration ...
 #PublicHealth #disabilities #ChildrensHealth #deafblind #DEI #DOE #USpol
"A federal appeals court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to continue withholding funding from Planned Parenthood as mandated in the tax and domestic policy bill President Trump signed in July."
Government Can Withhold Funds From Planned Parenthood, Appeals Court Rules
A three-judge panel threw out a lower court’s order, allowing the Trump administration to continue defunding the group and other major abortion p...
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"Ernaux says it is important for young people to know the dangers of illegal abortion, because politicians sometimes seek to restrict access to legal abortion. She points to recent events in some US states and Poland. 'It is a fundamental freedom to be in control of your body and therefore of reproduction,' she says."
A backstreet abortion nearly killed Annie Ernaux. It became a story that shaped her life
Writer Annie Ernaux - whose work fearlessly examines her own life - went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 #healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #SexualAssault #WomensHealth #author #books #literature
"Access to subsidies for childcare and healthcare, which are more common in Europe, can impact an American woman's decision to move abroad. 'People don't realise how far behind the US is on maternal care, parental leave, and healthcare,' Alyssa says, 'until they leave the country.'"
Why more young US women seem to be ready to move abroad
A Gallup poll suggests 40% of US women aged 15 to 44 would move abroad if they could. Women who took the plunge tell us why.
 #healthcare #PaidLeave #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #WomensHealth #USpol
"Alice Wong was a major force in disability activism. She passed away last month at the age of 51. For Here and Now, reporter Elissa Nadworny speaks with Yomi Young about Wong’s impact as a fellow activist, and what she leaves behind as a friend." https://www.npr.org/2025/12/06/nx-s1-5620744/remembering-disability-activist-alice-wong #aapi #aanhpi #disabilities #advocacy #activism #podcast #AliceWong #RIP
"Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for an Academy Award, has died. She was 73."
AP News
Christine Choy, indie filmmaker who led seminal documentary on the killing of Vincent Chin, dies
Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for ...
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