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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired a panel of 17 medical and public health experts that advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy, and is expected to replace them with individuals aligned with his own vaccine skepticism. In a statement issued on Monday, the …

President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have released the first report authored by the so-called Make America Healthy Again Commission — and it’s riddled with citation errors and even outright fake research. The “MAHA Report: Make Our Children Healthy Again,” which was released …

Disregarding the advice of medical professionals, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republicans are leading a charge against what has been heralded as one of the greatest public health achievements: fluoride in public water. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned fluoride from public water on Thursday, …

Four months into Donald Trump’s presidency, his and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to “Make America Healthy Again” appears to be taking shape: It consists of throwing millions of Americans off their health insurance plans, making Americans pay more for health care in various ways, and slashing health spending and …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress put in charge of the nation’s health systems, doesn’t think he’s qualified to dispense medical advice. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine conspiracy theorist, was asked about the measles vaccine during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday. The United …

Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has been busy triggering constitutional crises, setting due process and other basic rights on fire, rocking the U.S. economy with a trade war based on horrifically bad math, wielding the Justice Department and other agencies to target his political enemies, …

The authors are all staff writers at The Harvard Lampoon, the school’s 150-year-old humor magazine. It has been 19 days, four hours, seven minutes, and 33 seconds since Harvard University leapfrogged Rosie O’Donnell to become Donald Trump’s most hated American institution. On April 11, the White House sent a letter …

John Oliver took aim at RFK Jr. on the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight. The late-night host discussed the Secretary of Health and Human Services’s cuts to his department, his anti-vaccine stance, and his “dehumanizing” recent comments about autistic people. “RFK needs to go,” Oliver said on the …

Rosa DeLauro represents Connecticut’s 3rd District in the House of Representatives. She is the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, as well as on the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee. Last December, I wrote about the dangers of Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, …

To assist him in his quest to determine the cause —or causes — of autism by September, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his hand-picked researchers will have access to a so-called “disease registry” of autistic people, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya announced …