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Last week, US President Donald Trump issued some health advice to pregnant women to avoid paracetamol, an ingredient in certain pain relief drugs, that had medical experts rushing to clarify the science… The advice came from a report ordered by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr - he’s the one behind the Make America Healthy Again movement, and he’s driving some big changes in the US health industry… So in this Squiz Shortcut we’ll look at why last week caused such a stir, who RFK Jr is and what his agenda means for the rest of the world - and us here in Oz…
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Squiz Recommends:
Listening: to this episode of The New Yorker’s podcast The Political Scene titled How MAHA is sowing vaccine confusion if you’d like to know a bit more about what’s been going on at the CDC and the politicisation of health in the US.
this article from CNN which fact checks the claims Trump made in his statement about Tylenol last week, as well as
information about autism.
Watching: here's the link to Trump's full announcement, for balance.
Email us: Got a topic you want us to tackle? Send us your Shortcut suggestions to [email protected].
Squiz Shortcuts is your back story to the big news stories…
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Prefer to watch this episode? Check it out on YouTube here
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Last week, US President Donald Trump issued some health advice to pregnant women to avoid paracetamol, an ingredient in certain pain relief drugs, that had medical experts rushing to clarify the science… The advice came from a report ordered by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr - he’s the one behind the Make America Healthy Again movement, and he’s driving some big changes in the US health industry… So in this Squiz Shortcut we’ll look at why last week caused such a stir, who RFK Jr is and what his agenda means for the rest of the world - and us here in Oz…
SPONSORED: Check out CDU’s Summer Semester courses here
Squiz Recommends:
Listening: to this episode of The New Yorker’s podcast The Political Scene titled How MAHA is sowing vaccine confusion if you’d like to know a bit more about what’s been going on at the CDC and the politicisation of health in the US.
this article from CNN which fact checks the claims Trump made in his statement about Tylenol last week, as well as
information about autism.
Watching: here's the link to Trump's full announcement, for balance.
Email us: Got a topic you want us to tackle? Send us your Shortcut suggestions to [email protected].
Squiz Shortcuts is your back story to the big news stories…
Want the email version? Sign up for the Shortcuts newsletter here
Prefer to watch this episode? Check it out on YouTube here

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