A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders to change the agency's vaccine recommendations and the committee that makes them.

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the dangers of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory committee, how Trump’s visa ban bars foreign doctors, the first FDA-approved transcontinental telesurgery,