Tag Archives: robert-f-kennedy-jr

A second Texas child has died of a measles outbreak, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — infamous spreader of vaccine misinformation — reportedly plans to attend the funeral on Sunday. Axios first reported news of Kennedy’s trip to Texas, with NBC News later reporting that …

Following weeks of mass purges of employees across federal agencies led by Trump officials and Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is next on the chopping block, with some 10,000 workers set for dismissal. The cuts will see medical researchers, …

Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran official at theFood and Drug Administration (FDA) who helped establish the U.S. effort to rapidly develop Covid-19 vaccines, resigned on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reported that Marks is stepping down amid pressure from the Trump administration and as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert …

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 …

The National Institutes of Health is in danger of being gutted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services. The NIH is best known for funding a broad spectrum of research science at universities with approximately $40 billion in annual grants. But it also runs its own …

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 …

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 …

In Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting of his second term, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed the severity of a measles outbreak in South Texas that has already caused the first death attributed to the deadly virus in the U.S. since 2015. During Tuesday’s meeting, Kennedy was asked to …

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 …

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 …