The Health Divide: Dental Care Was Already Woefully Inadequate in Many Communities. Now It’s Getting Worse.

The Health Divide: Dental Care Was Already Woefully Inadequate in Many Communities. Now It’s Getting Worse.

By: Fran Smith |centerforhealthjournalism.org Dr. Eleanor Fleming was nine months into conducting a five-year federally funded study of unconscious bias in dentistry when the government cancelled her grant in April as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to health and science research. Like many researchers who abruptly lost funding in recent months, Fleming was […]

HHS Nominee Robert Kennedy Jr., Would Be a Disaster for Public Health, Predict Experts

HHS Nominee Robert Kennedy Jr., Would Be a Disaster for Public Health, Predict Experts

By Sunita Sohrabji, EthicMediaServices | Editorial credit: Ringo Chiu / shutterstock.com  Critics believe Kennedy is unfit to serve as Health and Human Services Secretary, because he will gut funding for public health research. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head up Health and Human Services is likely to gut public health research, […]