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How the CDC Stopped Tracking Raw Milk's Germs as Sales Soared
As raw milk demand climbs and states loosen the rules, the CDC made six of its eight tracked food-borne germs optional to report, including those raw…
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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Why a Top CDC Scientist Saved 250 Pages of Her Own Emails
Pulled flu ads, a measles data request, and a Secretary who never took a briefing: what the internal record shows about the CDC under Kennedy.
Jul 6
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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A concentrated opioid is being sold as “just kratom”
The DEA moved to ban it. The threshold that decides which products are actually banned is open for public comment until July 31st.
Jul 5
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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Heat Deaths Are Predictable: AC, Work, Utility Policy
The protections that would save lives — a federal heat rule, summer shutoff bans, cooling aid, clean-air rules — are stalled, missing, or on the…
Jul 2
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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Trump's Drug War Wants Your Medical Data. Here's the Blueprint.
A surveillance system sold to fight fentanyl could just as easily track abortion, pregnancy, and gender-affirming care.
Jul 1
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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June 2026
CDC Almost Stopped Tracking Firefighter Cancer. It Took a Lawsuit to Undo.
Buried in Sanders's 250-page email release: a near-miss for the people who run into fire and down into mines, and the coal miner, senator, and unions…
Jun 26
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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What the CDC Emails Show: Scientists Quietly Building a Paper Trail
Flu ads pulled mid-season, a vaccine panel marked for replacement, a database the Secretary wanted to buy, and career staff documenting all of it on the…
Jun 26
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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The Inside Scoop on Longevity
The ACA architect spent his Aspen interview explaining, case by case, why the cheapest health fixes go undone — because the savings land in someone…
Jun 26
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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“Like hyenas on a dead body”: a Congolese aid veteran on the Ebola response
Fear-indexed aid follows the disease donors are afraid of catching, not the diseases a community is dying from, and eastern Congo has noticed.
Jun 13
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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Measles, bird flu, and Ebola are spreading. NIH just made its disease experts easier to fire.
A June reclassification quietly stripped civil-service protections from the senior NIH staff who decide what infectious research gets funded, removing…
Jun 12
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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Europe Got This Sunscreen in 2000. America Just Caught Up.
Europeans have used bemotrizinol since 2000. It took a reform hidden in the 2020 COVID relief bill for Americans to get it, and a decade of advocacy…
Jun 11
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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A Diabetes Society Had Police Remove the Editor of Its Own Journal. Then It Apologized.
"Diabetes research saved my life," one patient wrote. A proposed rule would let political appointees kill any grant.
Jun 10
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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