A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it's had only acting directors--and the White House won't say when that will change. As the agency rotates through a cast of leaders, it's unclear when--or if--the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will get a permanent director under Donald Trump's second term as president. Following Jim O'Neill's departure as acting CDC director last week, National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya will now lead both agencies temporarily. It's the latest in a series of shakeups at Trump's CDC, which has lost about a quarter of its staff to mass layoffs carried out by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. last year.

In this material, we will give more technical details as well as additional experiments to support the main paper. The overview of the proposed framework, DeWave, is illustrated in Figure 6. The dataset is split into training (80%), development (10%), and testing (10%) sets, comprising 10,874, 1,387, and 1,387 unique sentences, respectively, with no overlap. We release our implementation code through GitHub to contribute to this area. Section 3.3, where a 6-layer CNN encoder slides through the whole wave and gets the embedding The codex encoder shares the same structure with word-level features.

Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are "poisoning children." US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filled an autism committee with friends, associates, and former colleagues who believe that autism is caused by vaccines. Autism advocates are now worried the group could pave the way for dangerous pseudoscientific treatments going mainstream. Last week, Kennedy announced an entirely new lineup for the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), a group that recommends what types of autism research the government should fund and provides guidance on the services the autism community requires. The group is typically composed of experts in the area of autism research, along with policy experts and autistic people advocating for their own community.

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RFK's Overhauled Autism Committee Is Even Worse Than It Looks Kennedy has stacked another HHS panel with his fellow travelers in the anti-vaccine and pseudoscience world. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Last April, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. promised that his agency would find the cause of autism "by September." That didn't pan out, but this week he appears to be trying again--by stacking a decades-old committee devoted to "innovations in autism research, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention" with his friends and fellow travelers in the anti-vaccine and pseudoscience world. Much like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which Kennedy overhauled last fall with a full slate of new appointees after firing all the old members, he filled the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), which was first established in 2000 to help set the federal agenda for autism research, with Kennedy's allies in the anti-vaccine movement.

Estimating causal effects of continuous treatments is a common problem in practice, for example, in studying dose-response functions. Classical analyses typically assume that all confounders are fully observed, whereas in real-world applications, unmeasured confounding often persists. In this article, we propose a novel framework for local identification of dose-response functions using instrumental variables, thereby mitigating bias induced by unobserved confounders. We introduce the concept of a uniform regular weighting function and consider covering the treatment space with a finite collection of open sets. On each of these sets, such a weighting function exists, allowing us to identify the dose-response function locally within the corresponding region. For estimation, we develop an augmented inverse probability weighting score for continuous treatments under a debiased machine learning framework with instrumental variables. We further establish the asymptotic properties when the dose-response function is estimated via kernel regression or empirical risk minimization. Finally, we conduct both simulation and empirical studies to assess the finite-sample performance of the proposed methods.

Kennedy granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg's terminal cancer diagnosis sheds light on acute myeloid leukemia warning signs and symptoms to watch for, with hope on the horizon for treatment.

Recent memoirs by the Justices reveal how a new vision of restraint has led to radical outcomes. To understand how grudging Amy Coney Barrett's new book is when it comes to revealing personal details, consider that one of the family members the Supreme Court Justice most often refers to is a great-grandmother who died five years before she was born. On Barrett's desk at home, she recounts in " Listening to the Law," she keeps a photograph of her great-grandmother's one-story house, where, as a widow during the Great Depression, she raised some of her thirteen children and took in other needy relatives. "Looking at the photo reminds me of a woman who stretched herself beyond all reasonable capacity," Barrett explains. "I'm not sure that I'll be able to manage my life with the same grace that she had. But she motivates me to keep trying." For Barrett, the mother of seven children, that effort entails setting her alarm for 5 "Our kids get up at six thirty during the school year, so I start early if I want to accomplish anything on my own to-do list," she writes. This is what passes for disclosure from Barrett; she measures out the details of her life with coffee spoons, careful not to spill.