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August 28, 2025

Former CDC Head Tom Frieden on firing of CDC Chief

Former CDC director Tom Frieden worries about the spread of false and inaccurate health information...

August 27, 2025

U.S. health policy and the risk of a ‘severe flu season’ in Canada

It’s a predictable pattern. As kids return to schools and daycares, and Canadians begin to...

August 22, 2025

Covid Vaccine Opponent Tapped to Lead Federal Review Team

Panel members have been given a broad mandate, despite pleas from C.D.C. employees asking Robert...

August 7, 2025

Public Health

Dr. Tom Frieden has served as Director of the CDC and as Commissioner of the...

August 2, 2025

Latest warning! Will there be insufficient wards due to extreme heat?

Climate change threatens global health through extreme heat, expanding vector-borne diseases, and worsening chronic conditions....

July 31, 2025

When prevention replaces treatment as a common sense, what policies do we still need to protect public health?

Good public health policies enable healthy choices. Tom Frieden discusses sugar taxes, trans fat elimination,...

July 30, 2025

Dismantling Public Health Infrastructure, Endangering American Lives

The New England Journal of Medicine | The extreme reductions that the Trump administration is...

July 27, 2025

Health Talk | Health is a win-win, global cooperation is needed for a healthier world: former U.S. CDC director

"Health is not a win-lose situation. Health is a win-win situation. When other countries are...

July 16, 2025

What’s in the 25-Year-Old Report Kennedy Cited When Dismantling ACIP?

When HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all 17 members of the CDC's Advisory...

July 15, 2025

At Senate hearing, anti-vaxxers seek to capitalize on friends in high places

For nearly a decade, anti-vaccine activists and film producers have been collecting tragic, mostly unverifiable...

June 25, 2025

Transparency Misinterpreted: CDC Vaccine Policy and Conflicts of Interest

Think Global Health | A former CDC director says the idea that the agency's vaccine...

June 16, 2025

Former CDC director Tom Frieden on the Trump administration’s relentless attack on public health

We Are Less Safe, Plain and Simple’ Former CDC director Tom Frieden on the Trump...

June 16, 2025

Former CDC Director: RFK Jr. is Dangerously Wrong about Vaccines

TIME | The firing of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee threatens decades of progress, risking...

June 7, 2025

Mass Screenings Alone Won’t Control the U.S. Hypertension Problem

MedPage Today | Follow-up in healthcare facilities is key...

May 24, 2025

Improved hypertension care requires measurement and management in health facilities, not mass screening.

Mass hypertension screening diverts resources from primary care. Universal facility-based blood pressure measurement is more...

April 1, 2025

Former CDC Director Tom Frieden: Cuts to the agency will cost American lives and dollars

STAT News | Here are just three of the essential teams that have been gutted...

March 20, 2025

Former CDC director Tom Frieden shares warning for RFK Jr. on measles outbreak

STAT News Breakthrough Summit | Public health disaster is brewing as HHS secretary wavers on...

March 4, 2025

Unlocking health equity by eliminating copayments for essential antihypertensive medications

Eliminating copayments for antihypertensive medications increases adherence and blood pressure control while reducing cardiovascular events,...

March 2, 2025

Postponing last week’s vaccine meeting endangers Americans’ health

The Hill | The indefinite postponement of a key vaccine advisory meeting raises concerns about...

February 21, 2025

Fourth Time a Charm?—How to Make the UN High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases Effective

Noncommunicable diseases cause three-fourths of global deaths but receive only 2% of development health assistance,...

August 28, 2025