manusapon kasosod/Moment/Getty Images It’s been a few weeks since the FDA suspended milk dairy quality testing after suffering sweeping staff cuts at the hands of DOGE. As Scary Mommy previously reported, milk testing by the FDA screens milk products for “a number of safety concerns, including drug residues (such as antibiotics), pathogens (such as salmonella),...
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images News/Getty Images On May 7, Robert Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a partnership between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build a “real-world data platform” to study autism. This data-sharing plan would enable research by using data from Medicare...
Phynart Studio/Getty Images Between growing unrest about rising prices and headlines about the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs, feeling extra anxious right now is understandable. For those of us who are parents already toeing the line every month between making ends meet and, well, not, panic seems like the appropriate response. Should we be buying socks...
andreswd/E+/Getty Images On May 1, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced changes to the way the United States conducted vaccine trials. While some have applauded this change as a much needed move towards transparency and heretofore lacking precaution, many experts have decried the still largely unclear announcement as unnecessary, costly, and dangerous....