
Sarah Owermohle
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It's Over-mall. @CNN reporter focused on health policy and politics in Washington DC. Signal: sarah_owermohle.07
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icymi: RFK Jr. says HHS will find the causes of autism by September in a "massive testing and research effort." Autism advocates and researchers are expressing early doubts. W/ Meg Tirrell Neha Mukherjee cnn.com/2025/04/10/heaā¦




"Perhaps the most infuriating part came when Kennedy began to talk about how autism causes misery for the autistic people and their families." Insightful article from Eric Michael Garcia, a journalist with autism, about RFK Jr's presser yesterday. the-independent.com/news/world/ameā¦


HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr says during press conference on food additives that "we're restoring all the FOIA offices and we're going to make it much easier for people to get the information" (after RIFS laid off FOIA officers) h/t Emily Kopp for the Q

New w/ Jason Leopold: CDC is launching a new team to manage the fallout from staff cuts and reorganization. Internal email says it was created to address "significant operational and programmatic issues" bloomberg.com/news/articles/ā¦




Trumpās diversity purge freezes hundreds of millions in medical research at universities across the country. Read Sarah Owermohle: cnn.com/2025/05/08/polā¦


RFK Jr. asked by Rep. Mark Pocan if he'd vaccinate his kids today against measles. Kennedy says "probably for measles" but quickly follows that his opinions on vaccines "are irrelevant" and everyone should make that decision themselves.

NJ's Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman asks RFK Jr. about 100s of cancelled NIH grants that include words like Black, race, bias, disparity & minority. Two grants to study maternal mortality - with known racial disparities - were cut. One was toMorehouse School of Medicine: cnn.com/2025/05/08/polā¦

