{"id":173940,"date":"2025-09-22T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173940\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:32:09","slug":"lgbtq-research-acip-on-vaccines-stat-morning-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173940\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ research, ACIP on vaccines: STAT Morning Rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to the work week, folks, and what are you reading these days? I\u2019m enjoying \u201cFree Food for Millionaires<\/a>\u201d by Min Jin Lee, the author of \u201cPachinko.\u201d<\/p>\n

The votes are in for new guidance on Covid shots<\/p>\n

Lots of news came out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s vaccine advisory committee meeting at the end of last week. Most notably, according to my STAT colleagues: How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s handpicked\u00a0new committee members, some of whom share his criticisms of vaccines or have even spread misinformation about them, have \u201cmoved away from the science-based framework for decision-making\u201d the group once relied upon. Read more of their analysis<\/a>, including what this augurs for the panel\u2019s plans to examine vaccines for babies, kids, and pregnant people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A quick recap of notable decisions: The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend that people over six months discuss the pros and cons of getting a Covid vaccine with their health care providers, a move that walks back the panel\u2019s previous endorsement of the shots but would preserve insurance coverage. They also decided to postpone the vote on whether to stop vaccinating newborns with the hepatitis B vaccine. Data show\u00a0the vaccine is safe and effective, but the committee had been expected to recommend delaying it \u2014 a move public health experts warned would endanger vulnerable infants.<\/p>\n

The committee did change guidance on childhood vaccinations against measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox, a combination shot known as MMRV. They recommended children under age 4 receive the shot that protects against chickenpox separately over concerns about rare instances of seizures, which is already recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Author of gender-affirming care reviews says politics are twisting his work<\/p>\n

Clinical epidemiologist Gordon Guyatt has co-authored three systematic reviews on different types of gender-affirming care for children and young adults: puberty blockers, hormones, and top surgery.\u00a0He tells STAT\u2019s Theresa Gaffney that people who want to ban gender-affirming care are misconstruing the reviews\u2019 findings in the service of their goals.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s true the systemic reviews graded the evidence for each intervention as being of low or very low certainty, \u201clow quality evidence doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t work,\u201d Guyatt said, adding: \u201cMost of the things we do, we only have low or very low quality evidence.\u201d While he supports caution when it comes to interventions for adolescents, he says that using the reviews to justify bans is \u201cegregious and unconscionable.\u201d Get more of his thoughts in this nuanced interview<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hospital infections are health care\u2019s \u2018dirty little secret\u2019<\/p>\n

Hospitals can face big fines if too many patients get infections during their stays. So some executives discourage staff from testing for infections or reporting them \u2014 a problem known as \u201chealth care\u2019s dirty little secret.\u201d<\/p>\n

For this STAT investigation, my colleague Tara Bannow spoke with clinicians at both nonprofit and for-profit hospitals about how pressure to limit testing can put patients\u2019 health at risk by delaying treatment. Conversely, some hospitals urge doctors to prescribe broad-spectrum antibiotics without testing first \u2014 a practice that may worsen antibiotic resistance. One hospitalist recalled C-suite leaders attending clinical rounds and telling clinicians not to order tests. \u201cIt\u2019s intimidating for some providers,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re making them second guess their clinical rationale and you end up canceling a lot of orders that way.\u201d Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why everyone is so obsessed with Trump\u2019s hand<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s attempts to cover bruises on his hand with makeup have garnered national attention in recent weeks, even leading to speculation that he had died over Labor Day weekend. Psychiatrist and political anthropologist Eric Reinhart says it\u2019s just one example of the\u00a0medicalization of politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur leaders\u2019 bodies have become sites for projection and speculation, as if the health of presidents, rather than the health of democracy, determine the nation\u2019s future,\u201d Reinhart writes. He says Americans should spend less time analyzing blurry Trump footage and more time confronting the ways\u00a0 his administration\u2019s policies are upending health care in the U.S. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re reading<\/p>\n

Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, official say, Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member\u2019s claim that Covid vaccines persist is \u201cabsolutely impossible,\u201d STAT<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s considered a \u2018women\u2019s condition.\u2019 It shouldn\u2019t be,\u00a0Slate<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a surgeon. My society waded into gun regulation \u2014 and chose politics over science,\u00a0STAT<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. weighs Trump-branded website to help shop for cheaper drugs,\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to the work week, folks, and what are you reading these days? I\u2019m enjoying \u201cFree Food…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-173940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}