{"id":3024,"date":"2025-01-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2025-01-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T10:00:00","slug":"journalists-address-hhs-under-trump-rural-pfas-contamination-and-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=3024","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Address HHS Under Trump, Rural PFAS Contamination, and Bird Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed the Department of Health and Human Services, the federal workforce, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on WAMU\u2019s \u201c1A\u201d on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/segments\/dot-gov-health-and-human-services-the-federal-workforce-and-rfk-jr\/\">Click here to hear Rovner on \u201c1A\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News video producer and visual reporter Hannah Norman discussed PFAS contamination in well water on KVPR\u2019s \u201cCentral Valley Daily\u201d on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/jan-7-breaking-down-how-forever-chemicals-got-into-our-water\/id1766366773?i=1000683031782\">Click here to hear Norman on \u201cCentral Valley Daily\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Norman\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals-drinking-water-rural-california\/\">Toxic \u2018Forever Chemicals\u2019 Taint Rural California Drinking Water, Far From Known Sources<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News public health local editor and correspondent Amy Maxmen discussed the bird flu outbreak on KMOX on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/podcast\/total-information-am-2922c\/episodes\/has-the-us-lost-control-of-the-bird-flu-18ed9\">Click here to hear Maxmen on KMOX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Maxmen\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/bird-flu-spread-cattle-poultry-pandemic-cdc\/\">How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health C\u00e9line Gounder discussed a new rule banning medical debt from credit reports on CBS Evening News on Jan. 7. Gounder also discussed the increase in covid, flu, respiratory syncytial virus, and norovirus cases across the U.S. as well as what to know about norovirus on CBS News 24\/7 on Jan. 6 and Dec. 31, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/new-rule-bans-medical-debt-from-credit-reports\/\">Click here to watch Gounder on CBS Evening News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xPVzKRwzRB0\">Click here to watch Gounder discuss covid, flu, RSV, and norovirus on CBS News 24\/7 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/norovirus-cases-surge-across-us-what-to-know\/\">Click here to watch Gounder discuss what to know about norovirus on CBS News 24\/7 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/on-air-january-11-2025-hhs-pfas-bird-flu-medical-debt\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed the Department of Health and Human Services, the federal workforce, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on WAMU\u2019s \u201c1A\u201d on Jan. 8. Click here to hear Rovner on \u201c1A\u201d KFF Health News video producer and visual reporter Hannah Norman discussed PFAS contamination in well water on KVPR\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}