Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related

3768 readers

54 users here now

Health: physical and mental, individual and public.

Discussions, issues, resources, news, everything.

See the pinned post for a long list of other communities dedicated to health or specific diagnoses. The list is continuously updated.

Nothing here shall be taken as medical or any other kind of professional advice.

Commercial advertising is considered spam and not allowed. If you're not sure, contact mods to ask beforehand.

Linked videos without original description context by OP to initiate healthy, constructive discussions will be removed.

Regular rules of lemmy.world apply. Be civil.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

WhoRoger@lemmy.world

RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world

Awa@lemmy.world

295

American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

49 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAP

The US department of health and human services (HHS) has terminated several multi-million-dollar grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics following the association’s criticisms of health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s policies.

The funding cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and early identification of autism, were first reported by the Washington Post and made without prior notice to the AAP.

In a statement to the Guardian, AAP CEO, Mark Del Monte, said: “AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the US Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated.

“This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among other topics.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I think you make a lot of good points. Justice does move slowly and I am pretty impatient at this point.

I think classism is one of the biggest issue we face and not holding the President accountable creates a blatant two tier justice system where politicians and are rarely held accountable and the President is never held accountable.

We also see this with wealthy people and our society even has clever names like "fuck you" money where you no longer have to listen to anything or follow the rules if you have enough money.

The thing is, we should be holding people in power to a higher level of accountability not lower or even worse not at all. Until our culture changes in this regard we will see people taking advantage of their privilege with impunity.

Trump and company are actually playing by the rules of their class and just taking this privilege to its logical conclusion. If you can't be stopped, why stop.