The Department of Health and Human Services was by no means spared the hatchet job by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE), and big changes are coming to food safety standards and communications over public health risks — and not in a good way. According to a Thursday report …
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The Trump administration gutted federal health agencies on Tuesday morning, as thousands of employees received layoff notices, following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement last week he was planning to lay off nearly 10,000 workers. More than 7,000 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and …
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As a mother of a 10-month-old infant, I worry a lot — about her sleep schedule, whether she’s eating enough, if she’s hitting her developmental milestones. What I didn’t expect to have to worry about as a parent in 2025 was measles, a preventable disease which was considered eliminated in …
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Get a whiff of this: the feds are coming for your poppers. In recent weeks, federal investigators have been cracking down on manufactures of the popular liquids commonly used as inhalants in the queer community, seizing supplies and forcing businesses to shutter. The clampdown on poppers, which have long occupied …
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As a major measles outbreak spreads out of West Texas into other states, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to spread a confusing message about vaccine safety. In an interview with Fox News that aired on Tuesday, Kennedy touted the vaccine — but also suggested that the best way …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a vaccine conspiracy theorist with no real medical experience — which is why thousands of doctors and dozens of Nobel Prize winners opposed his confirmation to run the Department of Health and Human Services, and why countless others have been concerned about his ability to …
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The Food and Drug Administration abruptly canceled a critical meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), which gathers annually in March to determine what flu strains will be covered by next year’s vaccine. The sudden cancellation of the meeting comes amid anxiety at federal health agencies …
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A recent executive order has sparked widespread concern about the availability of medications treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a condition that affects more than 22 million Americans. Titled “Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission,” the executive order has Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy …
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — As the Beatles’ lyric goes: “Everybody had a hard year. Everybody had a good time. Everybody had a wet dream. Everybody saw the sunshine.” The 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference held this week just outside of Washington, D.C., was exactly like that, if you’re someone who …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ran a failed 2024 presidential campaign built on crank beliefs about medical science before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, was confirmed today by Senate Republicans as the president’s secretary of Health and Human Services. The position will allow him to inflict untold damage on …
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