Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Trump Issues Memo Ordering Comprehensive Review of Childhood Vaccine Schedule, Elevating Political Control Over Medical Science

2025-12-06 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

President Donald Trump issues a Presidential Memorandum ordering the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a comprehensive review of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule and align it with “best practices from …

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CDC Issues First Opioid Prescribing Guidelines, Twenty Years After OxyContin Launch

2016-03-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

On March 15, 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its first-ever “Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain”—twenty years after Purdue Pharma launched OxyContin with aggressive marketing based on false addiction claims, and nine years after …

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