Funding for 31 communities and organizations will expand access to healthy food, housing, behavioral health resources and supports for older adults BOSTON — Governor Maura Healey today announced $17.9 million in grants to 31 community organizations, cities, towns and regional planning commissions to improve…
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Vaccine hesitancy and politics continue. Years of loud skepticism and outright campaigns against vaccination seem to have taken their toll; a decrease in vaccine use has resulted in a resurgence of measles and other public health threats. Yet the government,…
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More than 300 years ago, during Boston’s 1721 smallpox epidemic, Onesimus, an African man enslaved by the Puritan minister Cotton Mather, shared knowledge of a centuries-old African practice known as variolation — a form of inoculation that could protect against…
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Following our lawsuit, AAP et. al. v Kennedy et. al., a federal judge issued an important ruling in our lawsuit against Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and the federal administration’s dangerous changes to vaccine policy. Coverage from major outlets include:
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A new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania finds that Americans make a clear distinction between career scientists and the political leaders running federal health agencies. While roughly two-thirds of respondents express confidence in agency scientists,…
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Community health centers — which provide vital medical services for the majority of low-income patients in Massachusetts — are facing a range of financial threats due to federal policy changes that will likely force them to scale back operations. Hear…
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Governor Maura Healey released new guidance on childhood vaccinations Wednesday, countering Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent overhaul of the schedule. Carlene Pavlos, Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, and Dr. Andrew D. Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, are…
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MPHA, alongside the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, and other leading medical organizations, has filed legal action to stop the upcoming February 25–26 ACIP meeting and reverse recent changes to the pediatric immunization schedule. A hearing…
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Following MPHA’s announcement that it would join a lawsuit challenging recent vaccine policy changes under HHS and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., which continues to move forward in court after a motion to dismiss was denied, the organization received coverage…
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Dramatic changes to the nation’s childhood vaccination schedule shouldn’t directly hinder access to shots in Massachusetts, public health experts said, thanks to the state’s efforts to build an inoculation policy independent from federal recommendations. It is likely, though, that federal health…
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