Trump watch: Doctors are subpoenaed over transgender care

Mun-Keat Looi , 2025-07-16 15:31:00
NIH director dismisses entire top advisory committeeScience reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director, Jay Bhattacharya, dismissed all members of the agency’s top external advisory body, the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD).1 Asked to comment, the Department of Health and Human Services—the NIH’s parent agency—told The BMJ, “On background: new NIH ACD members are being selected, and the process will be completed in the coming weeks . . . The NIH director provides membership recommendations, and final selections for ACD membership remain—as they always have—with the secretary of health and human services.” Critics, including former members, fear that the move will lead to politically motivated appointments aligned with the views of the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.Moderna’s covid vaccine is approved for high risk childrenThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fully approved Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine, Spikevax,2 for children aged 6 months to 11 years with at…
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