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  • Trump is ‘fully fit’ and manages high cholesterol, says White House physician

    Report also shows president is up to date on recommended vaccines as health secretary sows doubts on their efficacy

    Donald Trump – the oldest person to ever be elected US president – controls high cholesterol with medication and has elevated blood pressure but is “fully fit”, White House physician Sean Barbella said in a report released on Sunday.

    The US navy captain’s report was published two days after Trump underwent a routine physical. It also said he was up to date on all recommended vaccines – despite his national health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr having spent years sowing doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccination.

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  • RFK Jr giving families ‘false hope’ on autism, says outgoing US vaccine official

    Dr Peter Marks, forced to resign by Trump administration, sees no ‘possible way’ to determine cause by September

    The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, should not offer “false hope” to families by boasting he can figure out what causes autism as soon as September, says the physician who resigned as the nation’s top vaccine official amid what he called anti-vaccination misinformation from the Trump administration cabinet member.

    In an interview during which he alluded to his help helming Operation Warp Speed – the initiative that took only about nine months to develop, manufacture and distribute the vaccines protecting the public from Covid-19 – Dr Peter Marks warned that autism “is an incredibly complicated issue”.

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  • Biotech group warns exit of top FDA vaccine official will ‘erode scientific standards’

    Rare admonition from a sector that has largely been silent in the face of the second Trump administration

    The US biotech industry’s main lobby group issued a rare warning following the forced and abrupt resignation of the nation’s top vaccine official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), saying the loss of his experienced leadership would “erode scientific standards” and affect the development of transformative therapies to fight disease.

    The statement, issued on Saturday by John Crowley of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), followed the news a day earlier that Dr Peter Marks – who led the FDA division that ensured the safety of vaccines – had resigned over what he called “misinformation and lies” from health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.

    Stephanie Kirchgaessner contributed reporting

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  • Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

    Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccines

    A top health official in the US, who was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of life-saving vaccines, resigned abruptly on Friday, citing health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “misinformation and lies”.

    Dr Peter Marks served as the FDA’s top vaccine official. He had been lauded by Donald Trump during the US president’s first term for his role in Operation Warp Speed, the initiative that developed, manufactured and helped distribute the Covid-19 vaccines.

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  • Trump administration at ‘war’ with mRNA technology: scientists alarmed vaccine skeptics could kill research

    Public health experts are sounding the alarm over recent move by the NIH to collect information about funding for research into mRNA technology

    A cutting-edge technology expected to foster new medical breakthroughs in treatments for cancers and infectious disease is being treated “like a four-letter word” inside the Trump administration, causing panic among scientists who fear Trump-appointed health officials, driven by misinformation and conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 vaccine, will cut critical research in the field.

    Scientists and public health experts interviewed by the Guardian are sounding the alarm over a recent move by the National Institutes of Health to collect information about funding for research into mRNA technology.

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