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... White House staff and congressional committees have sought answers from the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command over a series of suicides.

At least 11 people working for the two organizations died by suicide in the 12 months through September, Bloomberg reported, citing U.S. officials and public records.

The military classified five of the deaths, which occurred between early June and early July, as a suicide cluster, Bloomberg reported.

Congressional committees overseeing the military and intelligence agencies received briefings after those deaths.

NSA Deputy Director Tim Kosiba briefed White House staff in August, an official told Bloomberg.

Ten of the deaths occurred in the area around Fort Meade, Maryland, where both organizations are based, and one occurred near an NSA facility in Georgia, an official said.

The tally includes military personnel, civilians and contractors. ...

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... Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other proven, routine, preventive care for babies.

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which analyzed more than 5 million births nationwide, found that refusals of vitamin K shots nearly doubled between 2017 and 2024, from 2.9% to 5.2%. Other research suggests that parents who decline vitamin K shots are much more likely to refuse getting their newborns the hepatitis B vaccine and an eye ointment to prevent potentially blinding infections. ...

Innumerable social media posts question doctors' advice on safe and effective measures like vitamin K and eye ointment. And the Trump administration has repeatedly undermined established science. A federal advisory committee whose members were appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- a leading anti-vaccine activist before joining the administration -- voted to end the longstanding recommendation to immunize all babies against hepatitis B right after birth. ...

One common thread that ties together anti-vaccine views and growing sentiments against other protective measures for newborns is the fallacy that natural is always better than artificial, said Dr. David Hill, a Seattle pediatrician and researcher.

"Nature will allow 1 in 5 human infants to die in the first year of life," Hill said, "which is why generations of scientists and doctors have worked to bring that number way, way down." ...