
David Ovalle
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Covering opioids and addiction for the Washington Post. Not @iam_DAVIDO but thanks!
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8 years ago Trump made "school meals great again" by repealing regulations that required healthy food. Now RFK Jr. is promising to re-regulate school lunch to "make America healthy again." Inside the 180 w/ Rachel Roubein Lauren Weber David Ovalle washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11…

Trump proudly has served McDonald’s at the White House while RFK Jr. called the Big Macs on Trump’s campaign plane “poison” Inside the Trump food policy contradictions flummoxing the food industry w/ Rachel Roubein Michael Scherer David Ovalle washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11…

In RFK Jr., drugmakers face an antagonist with regulatory power wapo.st/3YTFTHr w/ Rachel Roubein Daniel Gilbert


RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Oregon shows what’s coming. washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11… via Fenit Nirappil

RFK Jr and aides are weighing changes to billions of dollars in Medicare physician payments. Their thesis: the current payment model, which rewards specialty care and surgeries, has created bad incentives that harm our health. Many experts + Dems agree. washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11…



Medicare proposes covering weight-loss drugs, teeing up clash with RFK Jr. via Dan Diamond washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11…


Trump’s pick to head DEA withdraws after GOP criticism of his covid policies Via Justine McDaniel David Ovalle Marianne LeVine washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…


Dave Weldon’s long record of promoting the disproven link between vaccines and autism raises concerns among some public health experts about his ability to run the CDC. RFK Jr. had proposed Weldon for the job. By LenaSun Fenit Nirappil Aaron Schaffer is no longer on this site washingtonpost.com/health/2024/12…


Questions remain about whether the non-opioid painkiller developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals could be effective for chronic pain. washingtonpost.com/health/2025/01… w Daniel Gilbert

Researchers determined that slashing cigarette nicotine levels should essentially be all or nothing — reducing nicotine moderately would only spur smokers to light up more, exposing them to increased toxic smoke. washingtonpost.com/health/2025/01… w/ Rachel Roubein

