Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

The FDA has announced at least 7 people have contracted E. coli linked to cheddar cheese made from raw milk.

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A few days ago a judge decided he knows more about children's health than Robert Kennedy Jr. and every member of the ACIP committee... And everyone at HHS, the CDC, and other.. This is a judge with no medical degree, no pediatric expertise, and a lifetime appointment... and with one ruling, he erased the most meaningful attempt to protect American children this government has ever made. Reuters called it "upending Kennedy's overhaul of childhood vaccine policies." Here's what actually happened. RFK Jr. looked at peer nations (like Denmark and Germany) with healthy kids and functioning societies, and said let's see if there's a smarter schedule. What he found was that we give 54 shots of 72 vaccine doses. Denmark gives roughly half that. And Denmark has not seen measles come back, or polio come back, or smallpox come back. None of the fear porn the American Academy of Pediatrics has been selling you has actually happened. Meanwhile we went from 12% of American children with chronic disease in the 1980s to nearly 50% today. In 48 years, we have seen the greatest collapse of children's health in the history of this country, happening in perfect parallel with a vaccine schedule that grew from 12 vaccines to 54 shots. You cannot look at the health of American children and call that program a success. You simply cannot. So what did the judge do? He said RFK Jr. didn't run it by ACIP, the advisory committee that by everyone's understanding has always been advisory only. No binding authority, just an opinion, not a mandate. At least that's what they always told us when the committee was captured... And then when Kennedy moved to satisfy that requirement, the judge said he didn't recognize the current ACIP either. There is no committee he recognizes. According to him there are no changes allowed in either direction, no new vaccines can be added, there can be no modifications for any reason, including a bioweapon attack. One judge has put the entire country in limbo to protect a rubber-stamp committee that has never once had a genuine skeptic in the room. A committee where members like Paul Offit voted to add rotavirus vaccines to the childhood schedule while personally developing a rotavirus vaccine and didn't recuse himself. That's the balance they're defending. The American Academy of Pediatrics, a trade organization funded by the pharmaceutical industry, went to court to make sure your doctor has no say in your child's vaccine schedule. They don't want pediatricians in the conversation. They want the government to decide. This is what happens when you try to clean the swamp. The swamp has judges. This case is not over. It's an injunction, not a final ruling. The Trump administration will appeal. And we will keep fighting. Because the children of this country deserve better than what 40 years of this program has given them.

Would you eat at a restaurant that gives you a menu without any prices on it, and then when you ask for a menu that does have prices on it, they hand you one with ridiculously inflated price labels next to each item, but reassure you that you won't actually pay those list prices--you'll pay a different, lower price based on what membership card you have. And when you ask what that lower price is, they can't reliably tell you, but promise to send you a bill in the mail a month later telling you what you actually owe. Welcome to the American healthcare system, which is the way it is not because businesses set out to do business this way, but because this is where they've found themselves after reacting to each previous policy and intervention (e.g., tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance, institutionalized third-party payment, gov't reimbursement formulae, cross-subsidization of public programs, etc.)

A dancing humanoid robot got a little too funky during a performance in Cupertino, California and had to be restrained by staff after knocking items off a table.

You go to different doctor’s offices and fill out the same forms over and over again when you could scan a QR code and have your information transferred instantly. We live in the 21st century. Healthcare shouldn’t feel like Groundhog Day.